Section outline

  • Lecture:

    Likelihood, conditional independence, conditional variance, Markov models

    Faculty:  Travis C. Porco

    Location:      Mission Hall 1108

    • Optional Reading:

      Books available to read at Sarah's desk (2667) at Mission Hall, please do not remove from Mission Hall & return to desk when not reading.

      • An Elementary Introduction to the Theory of Probability (Dover Books on Mathematics)
      • The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics, calculus chapter, if calculus review needed
    • SarahNotesLecture2 File

    • Assignment:

      There are 11 total homeworks due Fridays before 8:45 AM. Homework can be turned in to Sarah or by email to sarah.ackley@ucsf.edu (cc travis.porco@ucsf.edu). For all homework assignments, please hand-write equations or typeset them using Latex or Word equation editor (do not turn in unformatted inline equations, e.g. x^2 + y^2 =1). Please complete all numbered problems in the document below.

      Grading: 80% and above is an A.

      Final version now posted:

    • homework and coursenotes2 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • homework2 File