Rhea Section for ECE302, Professor Boutin, Spring 2013

MWF 12:30- 1:20pm in MSEE B012

Course Information

• Instructor: Prof. Mimi
  • Office: MSEE 342
  • Office hours are listed here.
• Teaching Assistant: Wei-Kang Hsu
  • Email: hsu59 at purdue dot you know what
  • Office hours: TF 2:00-4:00 pm EE209
• Schedule
• Course Syllabus
• Important Dates:
  • Test 1: Friday February 8, 2013.
  • Test 2: Wednesday April 3, 2013.
  • Final: TBD

Textbook

Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering, 3rd Edition, by Alberto Leon-Garcia, Pearson Education, Inc., 2008, ISBN 0-13-601641-3

Lecture Blog

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,

9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30

Collectively Solved Practice Problems

• Definition of a set
  • Do these signals form a set?
• Set operations
  • Union of two sets
  • Union of two sets (again)
• Conditional Probability
  • Explain the Monty Hall problem using conditional probability

Homework

• HW1
• HW2
• HW3
• HW4(Will include all problems assigned after the lecture-- see lecture blogs )

Homework Discussion and Solutions

• HW1_solution
• HW2_solution

Materials Covered

• Probability Models (Ch.1)
• Axioms of Probability, counting, conditional probability, independence(Ch.2)
• Random variables, Expected value and moments, probability mass function (Ch.3)
• Cumulative distribution function, functions of a random variable (Ch.4)
• Two random variables(r.v.), joint cdf of 2 r.v., independence of 2 r.v., conditional expectation (Ch.5)
• Vector r.v., jointly Gaussian r.v, estimation of r.v. (Ch.6)
• Definition of Random Processes(r.p.), Poison r.p., Random Walk (Ch.9)
• Power spectral density, response of linear systems to random signals (Ch.10)

Relevant Resources

• Practice Problems
• Rhea's Collective Table of Formulas.
  • Probability Formulas
  • Probability Distributions

Honors Projects

• Oluwatosin Adeosun

Your turn! Bonus Point opportunities

Exercises

1. Invent a problem on conditional probability or independence and share it with your classmates (0.5% course grade bonus)
2. Find a mistake in your classmates' solutions (0.5% course grade bonus)

Class Project

Students in ECE302 Spring 2013 have the opportunity to earn up to a 3% bonus by contributing a Rhea page on a subject related to probability. To pick a subject, simply write your name next to it. Your page will be graded based on content as well as interactions with other people (page views, comments/questions on the page, etc.). The number of links to other courses and subjects will also be taken into account: the more the merrier! Please do not simply copy the lecture notes and do not plagiarize. Read Rhea's copyright policy before proceeding.

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