STAT 2510 - Applied Probability

Assignments:

Pre-class Videos (PCV) (daily assignment)

• Watching and taking notes on the pre-recorded class videos will be an ongoing homework assignment throughout the course.
• Link to sections and due dates for PCVs.
• Link to videos.

Pre-class Notes (daily assignment - Submitted via tinyurl.com/stat2510-work - NOT on Brightspace)

• You will submit pre-class notes before each class meeting about the video assigned for that day's class.
  Follow the naming instructions at the tinyurl page.

Homework Problems (Weekly, with exceptions noted - Due by the end of the day - Submitted via Brightspace)

NOTE:
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* Brightspace will only be used to collect HW problems, nothing else should be submitted there.
* For the 3 sections where section numbering differs in the 9th and 10th editions, the 9th edition section number is listed first and the 10th edition section number appears in square brackets (e.g., 2.6 [2.7] )

• (1) Due 8/30
  The calculus review problems on this worksheet. Complete these on the front of a single page.
  

• (2) Due 9/6
  1.1: 3, 10, 11, and X6
  1.2: 4*, 5, 7, 8, 17 (*Hint: one of the parts can be thought of as fitting a non-negative ball & urn model)

• (3) Due 9/13
  1.3: 4, 6, 8, 10, 16
  1.4: 4b, 5, 9, 12c & d, 16 (Hint: for #16 remember that the sum of a geometric series is a/(1-r) )

• (4) Due 9/20
  1.5: 1, 2, 4, 8
  2.1: 2, 3abc, 5bc, 7, X14 (data for #5: JMP format TXT format (for Excel) Create 2 separate graphs for part c)

• (5) Due 9/27
  2.2: 1abc, 2, X3, 4, X7, 12
  2.3: X1, 4, 6, Y9

• (6) Due 10/4
  2.3: 11, 12, 13
  2.4: 6, X11, 13, 20
  Derive the MGF for a Bernoulli(p) Random Variable.

• (7) Due 10/11
  2.5*: 1, 3
  (*NOTE: this is section 2.6 in the 10th edition)
  2.6**: 3, 5, X6, 8, and this problem using JMP or Excel.
  (**NOTE: this is section 2.7 in the 10th edition)
  
  (**NOTE: Only the data/Excel problem will be graded. Solutions for the others are posted.)

• (8) Due 10/18
  2.6**: 11
  (**NOTE: this is section 2.7 in the 10th edition)
  3.1: 7b, 8a, 13, 16
  3.1 : 6, 15 (still 3.1, but a bit more challenging)

  10/21 Info for exam1 re-write (Submit rewrites at the tinyurl, ONLY HW is on Brighspace)

• (9) Due 10/25
  3.1: X18,
  3.2: 2, 6, and and this problem using JMP or Excel.

• (10) Due 11/1
  3.2: 8, 10, 13, 21
  NOTE: you may need to use integration by parts when working with a gamma distribution.

• (11) Due 11/8
  9.1: 4 (compute the G.O.F. test and a Probability Value (p-value))
  3.3: 4, X5, 11

• (12) Due 11/15
  3.3: 4, X5, 11
  * For a Binomial(25, 0.5) RV, X, find the following probabilities using the normal approximation (show your work):
      P(10 < X ≤ 12); P(12 ≤ X < 15); P(X=12)
  5.1: X2, X5

  12/03 Info for exam2 re-write (Submit rewrites at the tinyurl, ONLY HW is on Brighspace)

• (13) Due 12/05 (before class on Thursday)
  5.3: 8, 14, X16