MAT330/681 LECTURE 18 (4/12/2021): GEOMETRIC PROBLEMS, INDEPENDENT RANDOM VARIABLES





Announcements: Please remember that HW9 is due this Wednesday evening via Blackboard, as usual. It is also always a good reminder that, if you have questions, you can ask them at the live classes, or during Zoom office hours (link was sent to you earlier this semester and is posted on Blackboard), or send them as an email.


• Video 1: Solving a probability problem with elementary geometry: Download file or watch below


• Video 2: Classic "breaking a stick" problem: Download file or watch below


• Video 3: Independent (continuous) random variables -- Part I Download file or watch below


• Video 4: Independent (continuous) random variables -- Part II (clarifying the end of previous video): Download file or watch below


• Video 5: Example of independent/not independent random variables: Download file or watch below




• Lecture Notes (static file from above videos): PDF file





Last updated: Apr 12, 2021, 12:00pm EDT