| Date | Description | 
|---|---|
| March 27 | 
Overview Reading: BT 1.1, 1.2, 1.6, Intro to Schnapsen, Rules of Schnapsen Notes, HW1 LaTeX source  | 
| March 29 | 
Counting: product rule, permutations Reading: Safety First (Schnapsen analysis) Trick mechanics, Notes  | 
| March 31 | 
Counting: combinations Notes  | 
| April 3 | 
Counting: complementing, inclusion-exclusion, pigeonhole principle Notes  | 
| April 5 | 
Intro to probability; equiprobable outcomes Reading: BT 1.3 Notes, HW2 LaTeX source  | 
| April 7 | 
Conditional probability Reading: BT 1.5 Notes  | 
| April 10 | 
Law of Total Probability Reading: BT 1.4 Notes  | 
| April 12 | 
Bayes' Theorem Notes, HW3 LaTeX source  | 
| April 14 | 
Independent events Reading: BT 2.1-2.3 Notes  | 
| April 17 | 
Naive Bayes classifier Reading: Naive Bayes notes Naive Bayes slides, Notes  | 
| April 19 | 
Random variables, expectation, geometric random variable Reading: BT 2.4, Expected Game Points, last year's exercise Notes, HW4 LaTeX source  | 
| April 21 | 
Linearity of expectation Reading: BT 2.7 Notes  | 
| April 24 | 
Variance Notes  | 
| April 26 | 
Independent random variables Notes  | 
| April 28 | 
Uniform, Bernoulli, and binomial distributions Notes, HW5 LaTeX source  | 
| May 1 | 
Error-correcting codes, Poisson distribution Reading: BT 3.1-3.2  | 
| May 5 | 
Midterm debrief; continuous random variables Reading: BT 3.3 Notes  | 
| May 8 | 
Uniform, exponential distributions Reading: BT 7.4 Notes, HW6 LaTeX source  | 
| May 10 | 
Normal distribution, Central Limit Theorem Demo  | 
| May 12 | 
Applications of Central Limit Theorem Reading: BT 7.1  | 
| May 15 | 
Examples of Central Limit Theorem Notes, HW7 LaTeX source  | 
| May 17 | 
Markov, Chebyshev, and Chernoff inequalities Reading: BT 7.2, 7.5 Notes  | 
| May 19 | 
Law of large numbers Reading: Maximum likelihood estimators Notes  | 
| May 22 | 
Maximum likelihood estimators Reading: Bias and confidence intervals Notes, HW8 LaTeX source  | 
| May 24 | 
Bias Notes  | 
| May 26 | 
Confidence intervals Notes  | 
| May 31 | 
Probabilistic algorithms: Quicksort, matrix multiplication Freivalds' algorithm, Notes  | 
| June 2 | 
Final exam review, HW8 solutions Notes  |