Lecture 8 Blog, ECE302 Spring 2013, Prof. Boutin

Friday January 25, 2013 (Week 3) - See Course Outline.

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In Lecture 8, we continued talking about Bernoulli trials. In view of the quiz from the past lecture, we paid special attention to the construction of the event tree, carefully justifying the probability of each branch.

Don't forget to participate in the bonus point opportunity! Deadline is this coming Sunday at 11:59pm.

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

  • Read section 2.3 in the textbook.
  • Solve the following problem (this problem completes the second homework, due in class this coming Monday.):
Problem 34 from Chapter 1 of "Introduction to Probability," by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis. Athena Scientific, Belmont, Massachusetts, 2008, ISBN 978-1-886529-23-6.


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