Lecture 15 Blog, ECE302 Spring 2013, Prof. Boutin

Monday February 11, 2013 (Week 6) - See Course Outline.

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In Lecture 15, we continued discussing the expectation of a discrete random variable. In particular, we proved the linearity property of the expectation and we showed that the expectation of a constast c is equal to c. There was also a quiz in which you were asked to compute the Expectation of a discrete random variable. Twitter disrupted the lecture slightly, but I trust all of us will make a special effort to concentrate on the task at hand in the future.

By the way, here is the link to my twitter account: twitter.com/mimiboutin


Action items for students (to be completed before next lecture)

  • Read Section 3.5 in the textbook.
  • Solve the following practice problem and share your solutions/comments/questions
Normalizing a PMF

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