Lecture 5 Blog, ECE302 Spring 2013, Prof. Boutin

Wednesday January 16, 2013 (Week 2) - See Course Outline.

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In the fifth lecture, we continued playing with "event trees". In particular, we drew an event tree to derive the multiplication rule. We also used an event tree to resolve the prisoner's paradox.

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

• Use what you learned in class today to solve the Monty Hall problem below:
  • the Monty Hall Problem

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