Math 5651 Home Page
Spring 2008, University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities Campus
http://www.math.umn.edu/~gwanders/Math5651/index.html
(URL of this page)
Prof. Greg W. Anderson
maintains this web page. Last modified May 2, 2008.
Welcome!
Course description
This course is a one semester calculus-based introduction
to probability theory, and is part of a two-semester statistics sequence.
Contact information for the instructor
Prof. Greg W. Anderson (name)
School of Mathematics,
University of Minnesota, Mpls., MN 55455, U.S.A.
(mailing address)
Vincent Hall 460 (office)
(612)625-9524 (phone)
gwanders@math.umn.edu (email)
Office hours M 3:45-5:15, W 3:45-5:15
Course information
- First day handout.
This document spells out the rules and regulations for the course.
Read it carefully!
- Homework assignments. This document will be updated frequently and is not finalized for any given week until just before class on Tuesdays.
- Solutions to homework.
- Solutions for assignment 1
due January 29, 2008. (Typo corrected March 4, 2008.)
- Text: Probability and Statistics, Third edition, DeGroot and Schervish.
- Here's what you need to know about exams.
- Dates:
- Midterm I: Thursday, March 6, 2008 (100 minutes)
- Midterm II: Thursday, April 17, 2008 (100 minutes)
- Sections to be covered are 3.6--3.9, 4.1--4.6,4.8, 5.2,5.4,5.6,5.7,
exam questions similar to homework problems. Look at the homework
assignment page for a list of review problems taken from sections
3.10, 4.10 and 5.13.
- Formula sheet to be distributed with the exam. With but light modification this will be used on the final exam, too.
- Solutions for Midterm II from Spring 2008.
- Final exam: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (120 minutes)
- All exams are given in the usual classroom for the course,
and all exams begin at the usual class start time.
- Solutions for Midterm I from Spring 2007. Midterm I in Spring 2008 will cover somewhat more material.
- Formula sheet that was given to students taking Midterm I in Spring 2007. This will be updated for distribution with Midterm I of Spring 2008.
- Solutions for Midterm II from Spring 2007. Midterm II in Spring 2008 will cover somewhat different material.
But this old exam gives a fair idea about how much calculus there
will be on the upcoming exam.
- Formula sheet that was given to students taking Midterm II in Spring 2007. This will be updated for distribution with Midterm II of Spring 2008.
- Here's an old practice final exam from a long time ago. (I was teaching this course out of different textbook then.)
With only a few obvious exceptions (problems 6 and 14),
these problems are good
practice for the final and are ones
I hope you have learned how to do in this course.
- Here's the actual final exam
I gave in Spring 2007 in Math 5651. Needless to say, these are all
types of questions I consider fair game.
- Answer key for Spring 2007 exam.
- Solutions for the last batch
of review problems from section 5.13.
- Expected value of a randomly chosen location in North America. (A photo sent by an alum of Math 5651.)
- Venn diagrams for more than three sets:
-
Monte Hall paradox in the science news again. (Posted April 9, 2008)
General information
The fine print
- We will do our best to keep the web page for Math 5651 current.
But this web page is not intended to be a substitute for attendance.
Students are held responsible for all announcements and all course
content delivered in class.
