Marquette University
Daniel B. Rowe, Ph.D.
MSCS 6010: Probability
Textbook: Casella, G. & Berger, R.L. (2002). Statistical Inference, Second edition. Duxbury. (ISBN: 0534243126)

The textbook will mainly be used as a reference.

Course Syllabus Fall 2009

Syllabus
Often more than one class period will be used to cover slides. We will also do some homework on the chalkboard, we will go through and run Matlab code, and review for exams in class.

Course Slides

Syllabus
Matlab Introduction
Math Review
Probability Theory
Discrete Probability Functions
Continuous Probability Functions
Continuous Probability Functions (cont.)
Continuous Probability Functions (cont.)
Exam Review
Transformation of Variables
Bivariate Transformation of Variables
Bivariate Transformation of Variables (cont.)
Bivariate Transformation of Variables (cont.)
Multivariate Transformation of Variables and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE)
Hypothesis Testing (LRT)
Multivariate Statistics
Final Review

Course Handouts

Lilliefors Distribution Testing Paper
Marsaglia Ratio of Normals Paper
Sum of Normals Algebra

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