Rhea Section for ECE302, Professor Boutin, Spring 2013
MWF 12:30- 1:20pm in MSEE B012
Message Area:
You can earn up to 0.5% bonus points on your course grade by inventing a practice problem and sharing it with your classmate. See details here.
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
- Set operations
- Conditional Probability
Homework
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
Honors Projects
Your turn! Bonus Point opportunities
Exercises
- Invent a problem on conditional probability or independence and share it with your classmates (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.
| Topic Number | Topic Description | Student Name/nickname |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something related to generating random variables | Name |
| 2 | Something related to Poisson random variables | Name |
| 3 | Something related to Exponential random variables | Name |
| 4 | Something related to Gaussian random variables | Name |
| 5 | Something related to the Estimation of random variables | Name |
| 6 | Automatic music composition project | Name |
