Uli Walther
Math 746, 494-1959
walther@math.purdue.edu
teaching Math 416 Spring 2018
TTh 10:30-11:45, UNIV 217
Office hours: Tue 2:30-3:00, Th 1:45-2:30.

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HW is due: Th in class or by 3:00pm in my office

Material covered

See here.

Homework due

The problems are assigned from the “Problems” section at the end of each chapter. The problems “Th2.1” etc. are assigned from the “Theoretical exercises” section at the end of each chapter.
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Week 1, Jan 11: Nothing
Week 2, Jan 18: 1.1, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.17, 1.21, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.11, 2.13, Th2.3, Th2.6, Th2.7 (HW1)
Week 3, Jan 25: 1.24, 1.28, 1.29, Th1.10, Th1.13, 2.8, 2.12, 2.21, 2.23, 2.27, 2.41, 2.49, 2.55, Th2.13, Th2.16 (HW2)
Week 4, Feb 1: 3.6, 3.7, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.19, 3.22, 3.26, 3.30, 3.38, Th 3.1 (HW3)
Week 5, Feb 8: 3.42, 3.47, 3.50, 3.53, 3.55, 3.58, 3.62, 3.73, 3.75, 3.78, 3.91, 4.1, 4.5, 4.7, 4.14 (HW4)
Week 6, Feb 15: 4.20, 4.21, 4.25, 4.27, Th 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4 (HW5)
Week 7, Feb 23: 4.40, 4.41, 4.42, 4.46, 4.48, 4.49, 5.15, 5.16, 5.18, 5.19 (HW6)
Week 8, Mar 1: 4.51, 4.54, 4.55, 4.58, 4.59, Th 4.17, Th 4.29, 5.24, 5.28, Th 5.11, Th 4.18 (HW7)
Week 9, Mar 8: Nothing. MIDTERM (1 hour on Tuesday).
Week 10, Mar 15: Nothing, Spring break
Week 11, Mar 22: problems in this file (HW8)
Week 12, Mar 29: 4.61, 4.65, 4.71, 4.74, 4.75, 4.79, 4.82, 4.78, 4.80, Th 4.27, 5.8, 5.10 (HW9)
Week 13, Apr 5: 5.13, 5.21, 5.22, 5.23, 5.25, 5.29, 5.30, 5.37, 5.38, 5.39, 5.40, 5.31, 5.32, 5.33 (HW10)
Week 14, Apr 12: Th 5.15, Th 5.21, Th 5.19, Th 5.20, Th 5.30, 6.6, 6.7, 6.10 (HW11)
Week 15, Apr 19: 6.13, 6.8, 6.9, 6.14, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.23, 6.26, 6.27, 6.30, 6.31, 6.33, Th.6.9 (HW12)
Week 16, Apr 26: 7.34, 7.36, 7.63 a), 7.78 a) and b), 8.5, 8.6, 8.7 (HW13)
Homework solutions: (They are not in the order as you handed them in, you need to look around.) HW2 HW3 HW4 HW5 HW6 HW7 HW8 HW9 HW10
Averages: HW1: 52 | HW2: 47 | HW3: 53 | Q1: 22 | HW4: 53 | HW5: 51 | HW6: 49 | Q2: 31 | HW7: 50 | MT: 59 | Q3: 26 | HW8: 47 | HW9: 52 | HW10: 52 | HW11: 50 | Q4: 31 | HW12: 45

Each HW is out of 55, each Q out of 50, the midterm out of 84.

  • The Midterm

    • The midterm will be one hour IN CLASS, on March 6.

    MT1 will cover everything through Poisson distributions. Hypergeometric distributions will not be on the midterm.

    Here are practice problems for the midterm.

    solutions for practice problems

  • The Final

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    Here are practice problems for the final. And here are the solutions.

    Statement for students with disabilities

  • The syllabus

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