Probability supervisions (2008–2009)
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]
- 2004 Paper 2 Question 5 Parts (a) and (b) [10]
- For each of the Bernoulli, Binomial, Geometric, Uniform and Poisson distributions
- calculate the expected value E(X) [2 each]
- calculate the variance Var(X) [3 each]
- Exercise 1 from the problem sheet. [10]
- Exercise 2 from the problem sheet. [3]
- Exercise 3 from the problem sheet. [3]
- Exercise 4 from the problem sheet. [5]
- Exercise 5 from the problem sheet. [3]
- Exercise 8 from the problem sheet. [5]
Second Supervision [64]
- 2008 Paper 2 Question 5 Parts (c) and (d) [12]
- Exercise 10 from the problem sheet. [8]
- Exercise 11 from the problem sheet. [10]
- Exercise 12 from the problem sheet. [8]
- Exercise 13 from the problem sheet. [8]
- Exercise 14 from the problem sheet. [8]
- Exercise 15 from the problem sheet. [10]