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    Mehran Sahami Handout #2

    CS109 January 3, 2011

    Syllabus
    (Subject to change by the management at any time with high probability)

    Monday Wednesday Friday


    January 3 5 7
    Administrivia Combinations Sample spaces
    Counting Permutations Axioms of probability

    Read: Chap. 1.1-1.2 Read: Chap. 1.3-1.6 Read: Chap. 2.1-2.5, 2.7
    10 12 14
    Conditional probability Discrete random variables
    Bayes Theorem Independence Mass functions & Expectation
    Read: Chap. 4.1-4.4
    Read: Chap. 3.1-3.3 Read: Chap. 3.4-3.5 DUE: PROBLEM SET #1
    17 19 21
    Variance
    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Discrete probability distributions More discrete distributions
    (No Class)
    Read: Chap. 4.5-4.6 Read: Chap. 4.7-4.10
    24 26 28
    Continuous random variables Normal distribution
    Simple continuous distributions Joint distribution functions
    Read: Chap. 5.4-5.6
    Read: Chap. 5.1-5.3 DUE: PROBLEM SET #2 Read: Chap. 6.1
    31 February 2 4
    Properties of expectation
    Independent random variables Conditional distributions Expected algorithm running times
    Read: Chap. 7.1-7.2
    Read: Chap. 6.2-6.3 Read: Chap. 6.4-6.5 DUE: PROBLEM SET #3
    7 9 11
    Covariance Conditional expectation Moment generating functions
    Correlation
    Read: Thursday, February 10th
    Read: Chap. 7.3-7.4 Chap. 7.5-7.6 7-9pm: Midterm Exam Read: Chap. 7.7
    14 16 18
    Central Limit Theorem
    Helpful inequalities and theorems Parameter estimation
    Read: Chap. 8.3-8.4 Method of moments
    Read: Chap. 8.1-8.2, 8.5 DUE: PROBLEM SET #4
    21 23 25

    Presidents’ Day Maximum likelihood estimation Prior probabilities


    (No Class) Bayesian estimation

    28 March 2 4
    Introduction to Machine Learning
    Naive Bayes classifier Logistic regression Modeling uncertainty
    Utility
    DUE: PROBLEM SET #5
    7 9 11
    Simulating probabilities Dead Day:
    Monte Carlo simulation Review for Final Exam our token attempt at Dead Week
    (No class lecture)
    Read: Chap. 10.1-10.3 DUE: PROBLEM SET #6

    Final Exam: Friday, March 18th, 8:30am-11:30am

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