All students are expected to complete the same work. All students are expected to complete the same work. Examples from legal, social, medical, and physical problems provide motivation and illustrations of modeling techniques. Spreadsheets will be used to illustrate and solve problems as a complement to analytical closed-form solutions. The preferred payment method is by check payable to Stanford University.
Copies are available in the bookstore as an optional textbook for the course.
Feller, An introduction to probability theory and its applications, Wiley, 1970. Hoel, Port, and Stone, Introduction to probability theory, Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Meyer, Introductory probability and statistical applications, Addison-Wesley, 1970. Papoulis, Probability, random variables, and stochastic processes, McGraw-Hill, 1991. Pitman, Probability, Springer-Verlag, 1993.