Midterm Examination
The midterm examination was scheduled as follows:
- Date: Friday, September 28, 2018.
- Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Venue: LH-1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Distribution of scores in the midterm
Answer scripts, queries etc.
If you have not seen your answer script or want to meet me (Siddhartha Gadgil) about any related issue, I will be available on Tuesday, October 9, 2019
between 8:30 am and 11:20 am. in my office N-15, Department of Mathematics.
Syllabus etc
Please note the rules for the examination.
The syllabus is the material covered in the lectures up to Wednesday, September 19, 2018.
Topics for the midterm with (roughly corresponding) chapters in the notes are as follows
- Discrete Probability spaces (Chapters 2 and 3).
- Laws of Probability (Chapter 6).
- Combinations of Events (Chapters 8 and 9).
- Independence and Conditional Probabilities (Chapters 9 to 12).
- Discrete and Continuous distributions (Chapters 13 to 16).
- Some important distributions: Bernoulli, Binomial, Geometric, Exponential, Cauchy.
- Random variables: Distributions, Independence, Expectation and Variance (Chapters 18, 20, 21).