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| Posted on/by | Reading | Homeworks | Due date | Basic problems |
| 2/22 | Handouts "Events and probabilities" (till the definition of a probability function), "Random variables" (till Example 9) and Equations (1) and (2) in Handout "Quantile and expectation" Some content can be found in Chapter 1 in the text. | Do some of Problems 1-4, 5(a), 6 up to 8 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 3/7 | Problems 2-6 |
| 3/8 | Handouts "Events and probabilities", "Random variables" (before Example 11). Some content can be found in Chapter 1 in the text. | Do some of Problems 7-14 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 3/14 | Problems 7-10, 12-14 |
| 3/15 | Handouts "Random variables" (Example 11) and "Quantile and expectation". Some content can be found in Chapter 1 in the text. | Do some of Problems 15-21, 5(b) up to 12 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 3/21 | Problems 15-20, 5(b) |
| 3/22 | Handouts "Some special expectations" and "Joint distribution of a vector of random variables". Some content can be found in Sections 1.9 and 2.1 in the text. | Do some of Problems 22-32 up to 12 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 3/28 | Problems 22-28, 30 |
| 3/29 | Handouts "Expectation of g(X,Y)" and "Distribution of a transformed random vector" Some content can be found in Sections 2.1 and 2.2 in the text. | Do some of Problems 33-36 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 4/7 | Problems 33-36 |
| 4/26 | Handouts "Conditional distributions and expectations", "Independent random variables", "Independence of two random vectors". | Do some of Problems 37-47 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 5/9 | Problems 37-40, 42-43, 45-47 |
| 5/3 | Handouts "Independence of two random vectors", "Covariance and correlation", and "Multivariate normal distributions" (till Example 2) | Do some of Problems 48-54 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 5/16 | Problems 48-51, 54 |
| 5/10 | Handouts "Covariance and correlation", and "Multivariate normal distributions" | Do some of Problems 55-58 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 5/23 | Problems 55-57 |
| 5/17 | Handout "Estimation and types of convergence" (till Page 3) | Do some of Problems 59-61 up to 4 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 6/2 | Problems 59-60 |
| 5/24 | Handout "Estimation and types of convergence" (till Example 7) | Do some of Problems 62-66 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 6/2 | Problems 63-64, 65(a), 66(a) |