The main educational resource for MA3160 is the following webpage: UConn Undergraduate Probability OER.
No book is required and the course will mostly be based on the lecture notes posted here.
There will be two midterm exams and a final exam whose dates will be communicated later.
There will be weekly homework/quiz assignments.
The final grade will be made of 20% first midterm, 20% second midterm, 20% homework/quiz and 40% final exam.
The following topics will be covered.
- Introduction: What is probability theory and why do we care ?
- Sets
- Combinatorics
- The probability set-up
- Independence
- Conditional probability
- Random variables
- Some discrete distributions
- Continuous distributions
- Normal distribution
- Normal approximation
- Some continuous distributions
- Multivariate distributions
- Expectations
- Moment generating functions
- Limit laws
Research and Lecture notes 