CSE 312 Spring 2013
Lecture Topics

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April 1 Overview
Reading: BT 1.1, 1.2, 1.6, Intro to Schnapsen, Rules of Schnapsen
April 3 Counting: product rule, permutations
Reading: Safety First (Schnapsen analysis)
April 5 Counting: k-permutations, combinations
Trick mechanics
April 8 Counting: more combinations, pigeonhole
April 10 probability axioms, equiprobable outcomes
April 12 conditional probability
Reading: BT 1.3, All the Aces
April 15 more conditional probability
April 17 total probability, Bayes' Rule
Reading: BT 1.4
April 19 independence
Reading: BT 1.5
April 22 more independence
April 24 random variables
Reading: BT 2.1-2.3
April 26 expectation
Reading: BT 2.4, Expected Game Points
April 29 expected game points in Schnapsen
Reading: It All Depends
May 1 variance
May 3 joint PMF
Reading: BT 2.5-2.7, How Much Help...
May 6 Midterm review, HW4 solutions
May 10 binomial distribution
May 13 Poisson distribution
May 15 continuous random variables
Reading: BT 3.1-3.2
May 17 uniform, exponential, normal
Reading: BT 3.3
May 20 central limit theorem
Reading: BT 5.4
May 22 analysis of randomized Quicksort
May 24 Markov and Chebyshev inequalities
Reading: BT 5.1
May 29 Chernoff bounds
May 31 law of large numbers
Reading: BT 5.2, 5.5
June 3 maximum likelihood estimate
Reading: BT 9.1
June 5 confidence intervals
June 7 final exam review
review of distributions