| Instructor |
Aria Nosratinia,
ECSN 4.208, Tel: 972-883-2894 |
| Time | Mon-Wed. 10:30-11:45am (section 001) |
| Place | ECSS 2.305 |
| Textbook | Yates and Goodman, Probability and Stochastic Processes, 2nd Edition John Wiley. |
| The textbook is available from the UTD Bookstore, Off Campus Books, as well as Amazon (click on link to go to the book page), Barnes and Noble, and other sources. You can use Addall.com to compare this textbook's prices from various vendors. | |
| Grading | Quizes and class participation (10%), Homeworks (10%), Midterm-1 (15%), Midterm-2 (25%), Final Exam (40%) |
| Exams | Midterm 1: Wednesday February 11 --- Midterm 2: TBA --- Final Exam: Friday May 8 at 8:00am |
| Notable Dates: | First lecture Jan. 12-- Drop without "W" until Jan. 28 -- Drop Deadline with WP/WF March 16 -- Spring Break March 16-21-- Last lecture May 4 |
| Prerequisite | Algebra, Calculus |
| Office Hours | Mon-Wed. 1-2pm |
| TA Information: | Negar Bazargani (negar.bazargani AT student.utdallas.edu) Office hours Tue-Thu 3-4pm in ECSN 4.206 |
Wireless communications (cell phones and WiFi) would be impossible without probability tools and techniques. Probability is also used to characterize reading and writing of bits on magnetic media. Without it your laptop computer, portable music player, and game stations such as Xbox, Wii, Playstation, would not work.
So why do we use probability to begin with? Because there are times when it is fundamentally impossible to determine the outcome of an experiment with complete certainty, or make a measurement with great precision. At times it may be possible, but not economical. Either way, we use probability to glean knowledge and make decisions in the presence of uncertainty.
This course gives an introduction to the fundamentals of probability and statistics with an eye to engineering applications.