ECEN 689-613 | SP TP PROBABILITY MODELS - Fall '08

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Probability Models and Applications


instructor

• Byung-Jun Yoon
  
  

  Email:	byung-jun yoon@ece.tamu.edu (only bold characters)
  Office:	ZACH 216G
  Phone:	979-845-6942
  Office Hours:	Tue 2:00PM-3:00PM, Thu 2:00PM-3:00PM
  Website:	http://www.ece.tamu.edu/~bjyoon

about the course

• time & location: Tue/Thu 05:30PM-06:45PM @ ZACH 119A
  
  
• main goal:
  

  The main goal of this course is to provide a broad overview of various probability models and their applications in engineering & science.

  
  
• who can benefit from the course?
  

  Any engineering student who has to deal with random signals in his/her research. For example, those who work in (1) signal processing, (2) image processing, (3) communication, (4) control, (5) computational biology & bioinformatics, and (6) many other relevant areas!

  
  
• required textbook:
  "Introduction to Probability Models" (9th edition)
  Author: Sheldon M. Ross
  Publisher: Academic Press

announcements

• If you plan to take (or audit) this course, please send an email to the instructor with your full name
  and your preferred email address!
• On 11/25 (Tue), Dr. Xiaoning Qian is going to give a guest lecture on HMT (hidden Markov tree).
• The take-home final exam will be handed out on 12/05 (Fri). [new!]
• The bonus homework can now be downloaded. [new!]
  Note that this optional bonus homework should be viewed as an open-book take-home exam.
  So, you are not allowed to discuss about these problems with others.
  Similarly, you cannot compare your final solutions with other people's solutions.

handouts

• handout #1: course syllabus & administrative details: [download]
• quiz: find out how much you remember about basic probability: [download]

homeworks

• homework #1 - due on 09/11/08 (Thu) [download]
• homework #2 - due on 09/25/08 (Thu) [download]
• homework #3 - due on 10/09/08 (Thu) [download]
• homework #4 - due on 11/13/08 (Thu) [download]
• homework #5 - due on 12/02/08 (Tue) [download]
• optional bonus homework - due on 12/12/08 (Fri) 12:00PM (noon) [download] [new!]

since July.02.2008 - by Byung-Jun Yoon
- last update: Dec.03.2008 -