Prob/Stat&Mathematica
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Authors: Bruce Carpenter, Bill Davis and Jerry Uhl ©1999
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Syllabus
Prob.01 Monte Carlo simulations
Estimating probabilities and measurements by Monte Carlo simulation
Prob.02 Data Analysis
Frequency, cumulative distribution functions and histograms for data sets of numbers.
Expected value and variance for data sets and functions of data sets.
Prob.03 Probabilities
Probabilities of unions and intesections of data sets. Conditional probability and independence.
Series wiring versus parallel wiring. Drug testing. Birthday problem. Probability of winning at craps. Gambler's ruin.
Prob.04 More data analysis
Markov's inequality, Chebyshev's inequalities and standard deviation. Law of large numbers. Random Walks, Outliers
Prob.05 Normal and Exponential
Normal distribution and the bell curve. Exponential distribution and the exponential curve.Recognizing data sets that are approoximately normally or exponentially distributed. The memoryless property of the exponential distribution. Monte Carlo generation of normally or exponentially distributed data sets. Experiments with sample averages and the normal distribution
Prob.06 Random variables
Continuous versus discrete random variables. Approximation of continuous random variables by discrete random variables. Probability density functions and cumulative distribution functions. Brand name continuous distributions: Uniform, normal,exponential, Weibull, chi-square,gamma and beta. Sample uses of each. Monte Carlo generation of data sets following a specified distribution.
Prob.07 Joint distributions
Joint distributions: Discrete and Continuous. Independence, Conditional probability and conditional expectations. Corellation.
Prob.08 Generating functions and the Central Limit Theorem
Central limit theorem. Generatng functions. Special attention to sums of independent normal and exponential randon variables.
Prob.09 Counting
Permutations, combinations, Bernoulli,Binomial and Poisson distributions. Approximations by normal distributions
Prob.10 Statistics
Sampling for the mean and variance. Acceptance testing.
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