Lecture 20 Blog, ECE302 Spring 2013, Prof. Boutin

Friday February 22, 2013 (Week 7) - See Course Outline.

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In Lecture 20, we learned about the cumulative distribution function of a random variable (both continous and discrete) and we began discussing normally distributed (continuous) random variables.

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

• Read Sections 4.4, 4.5 in the textbook.
• Solve the following practice problems and consider sharing your answer for discussion and feedback. (You will hand in your solution as part of homework 5.)
  • Normalizing the probability mass function of a Gaussian random variable
  • Obtaining the joint pdf from the marginal pdfs of two independent variables

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