ST 321: Elementary Probabilistic/Stochastic Modeling
Spring 2004

Mon, Wed and Fri, E202 Engineering, 2:10pm-3:00pm

Last update: 05/07/04

note: you should visit this page on a regular basis

Announcements, news etc:

• [05/02] The road ahead:
  1. Monday (05/03): (hopefully) last class of new material
  2. Wednesday (05/05): review + tips on final exam (important!)
  3. Friday (05/07): last lab session + last homework due
  4. Monday (05/10): final exam at 7:00am!


• [04/03] A change in grade calculation: for your final grade, your midterm scores will be calculated as the maximum of
  1. average of all the scaled scores from your three midterms (same as announced in the beginning of the semester)
  2. average of the best two unscaled scores from your three midterms

Some useful links:

• General Information
• About grading, exams etc

Computing related links:

• Math/Stat Computer Lab, located at 206 Weber
• Get S-plus for free!
• Free on-line books and other information about S-plus
• The Comprehensive R Archive Network (a free alternative to S-plus)

Lab Sessions:

1. Splus/R (01/30)
2. Simulating Experiments (02/06) solutions
3. Random Variables and Histograms(03/05) solutions
4. Expectation and Variance (03/12) solutions
5. Simulate Discrete Random Variables (03/26)
6. Discrete Event Simulation Approach (04/09)
7. Matrices (04/23)
8. Markov Chains (05/07)

Homework:

• Homework 8
• Homework 7
• Homework 6
• Homework 5
• Homework 4
• Homework 3
• Homework 2
• Homework 1

Instructor:

• Thomas Lee
• email: tlee@stat.colostate.edu
• office: Rm 205 Statistics Building
• phone: 491-2185
• office hours:
  • Tue: 3:00pm-4:00pm
  • Wed: 1:15pm-2:00pm
  • Also by appointment