The course webpage contains links to the syllabus, past tripos questions, lecture notes and the problem sheet.

Please hand in your work before 16:00 on the day before the supervision. You can hand it in via email or on paper to the Gonville & Caius porters’ lodge.

First Supervision [64]

  1. 2004 Paper 2 Question 5 Parts (a) and (b) [10]
  2. For each of the Bernoulli, Binomial, Geometric, Uniform and Poisson distributions
    1. calculate the expected value E(X) [2 each]
    2. calculate the variance Var(X) [3 each]
  3. Exercise 1 from the problem sheet. [10]
  4. Exercise 2 from the problem sheet. [3]
  5. Exercise 3 from the problem sheet. [3]
  6. Exercise 4 from the problem sheet. [5]
  7. Exercise 5 from the problem sheet. [3]
  8. Exercise 8 from the problem sheet. [5]

Second Supervision [64]

  1. 2008 Paper 2 Question 5 Parts (c) and (d) [12]
  2. Exercise 10 from the problem sheet. [8]
  3. Exercise 11 from the problem sheet. [10]
  4. Exercise 12 from the problem sheet. [8]
  5. Exercise 13 from the problem sheet. [8]
  6. Exercise 14 from the problem sheet. [8]
  7. Exercise 15 from the problem sheet. [10]