CS109A | Schedule

All times listed are Pacific Time.
Lecture Notes for future lectures are drafts and may be updated as the course progresses.
Optional readings are from Sheldon Ross, A First Course in Probability (10th Ed.), Prentice Hall, 2018. The textbook's 8th and 9th editions have the same readings and corresponding section headers.

Date	Lecture contents	Assignments
Week 1
Mon Sep 14	1 Counting Lecture Notes Welcome/Logistics Sum Rule, Product Rule Inclusion/Exclusion Principle, General Rule of Counting Read: Ch 1.1-1.2
Wed Sep 16	2 Permutations and Combinations Lecture Notes Read: Ch 1.3-1.6	Out: PSet #1
Fri Sep 18	3 Axioms of Probability Lecture Notes Read: Ch 2.1-2.5, 2.7
Week 2
Mon Sep 21	4 Conditional Probability and Bayes Lecture Notes Read: Ch 3.1-3.3
Wed Sep 23	5 Independence Lecture Notes Read: Ch 3.4-3.5
Fri Sep 25	6 Random Variables and Expectation Lecture Notes Read: Ch 4.1-4.4	Due: Pset #1, 1PM Out: PSet #2
Week 3
Mon Sep 28	7 Variance, Bernoulli, Binomial Lecture Notes Read: Ch 4.5-4.6
Wed Sep 30	8 Poisson and More Lecture Notes Read: Ch 4.7-4.10
Fri Oct 2	9 Continuous Random Variables Lecture Notes Read: Ch 5.1-5.3, 5.5
Week 4
Mon Oct 5	10 The Normal Distribution Lecture Notes Read: Ch 5.4	Due: PSet #2, 1PM Out: PSet #3
Wed Oct 7	11 Joint Distributions Lecture Notes Read: Ch 6.1	Quiz #1
Fri Oct 9	12 Independent Random Variables Lecture Notes Read: Ch 6.2-6.3
Week 5
Mon Oct 12	13 Joint RV Statistics Lecture Notes Read: Ch 6.4-6.5
Wed Oct 14	14 Conditional Expectation Lecture Notes Read: Ch 7.1-7.2
Fri Oct 16	15 General Inference Lecture Notes Lecture Notes	Due: PSet #3, 1PM Out: PSet #4
Week 6
Mon Oct 19	16 Continuous Joint Distributions Lecture Notes Read: Ch 6.1
Wed Oct 21	17 Continuous Joint Distributions II Lecture Notes Read: Ch 7.3-7.4
Fri Oct 23	18 Central Limit Theorem Lecture Notes Read: Ch 8.3
Week 7
Mon Oct 26	19 Sampling/Bootstrapping Lecture Notes Read: Lecture Notes	Due: Pset #4, 1PM Out: Pset #5
Wed Oct 28	20 Parameters and MLE Lecture Notes Read: Lecture Notes	Quiz #2
Fri Oct 30	21 Beta Lecture Notes Read: Ch 5.6.1-5.6.4, 7.5-7.6
Week 8
Mon Nov 2	22 Maximum a Posteriori Lecture Notes Read: Lecture Notes
Wed Nov 4	23 Naive Bayes Lecture Notes Read: Lecture Notes
Fri Nov 6	24 Gradient Ascent and Linear Regression Lecture Notes Read: Lecture Notes	Due: Pset #5, 1PM Out: Pset #6
Week 9
Mon Nov 9	25 Logistic Regression Lecture Notes Read: Lecture Notes
Wed Nov 11	26 Deep Learning Lecture Notes
Fri Nov 13	27 Probability Bounds Lecture Notes
Week 10
Mon Nov 16	28 Utility of Money	Due: PSet #6, 1PM
Wed Nov 18	29 Simulating Probabilities	Quiz #3
Fri Nov 20	30 Beyond CS109

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