Note that the tutors for this course are part time and should not be contacted outside of class times. In some weeks, one of the lectures may be used as a problem solving session. As well, laboratory sessions will be scheduled in about 4-5 weeks during the semester. You should attend all lectures. Tutorials will commence in week 2.
All classes begin on the hour , please make every effort to be on time.
Resource materials . It is essential that you purchase or borrow the text as assignments will be set from the problems in it. Topics are listed below. Probability density functions, joint densities, independence, transformations, order statistics, conditional distributions, expected values, means, variances, moments, moment generating functions, Tchebycheff's inequality. Assessment criteria .