6.041A/6.431A Intro to Probability I
Fall 2018
Instructors: Mardavij Roozbehani, John N Tsitsiklis, Lizhong Zheng
TAs: Rohan B Banerjee, Samuel Adam Buercklin, Jiahao Han
Lecture:
MW 12-1
(2-190)
Recitation : TR11-12 (24-121) or TR12-1 (24-121) or TR1-2 (1-150) or TR2-3 (1-150)
Information:
Course Objectives
Calendar & Syllabus
Link to Piazza forum
Solutions to end-of-chapter problems in the textbook
Link to Piazza forum
Tutorial Assignments
Tutorials are in 24-317 and 24-319. A sections are in 24-317, B sections are in 24-319. Any sections without a letter will be in 24-317.
Required Text: Introduction to Probability, 2nd edition, by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis, ISBN# 9781886529236
If you are late in acquiring a copy of the text, the first chapter can be found online here: www.athenasc.com/Prob-2nd-Ch1.pdf
Announcements
Grades submitted - and some info on 6.s077
Dear all,final course grades for 6.041B have been submitted and should become available through Websis (not through Stellar). It was a real pleasure to be in charge of this class.
On this occasion, I would like to bring to your attention the class 6.s077, Introduction to Data Science, which is offered again this coming spring, and will be taught by Profs. Polyanskiy and Shah. The class is very much in the spirit of 6.041: it goes quite deep into statistics and inference, all the way to modern machine learning methods, from a probabilistic perspective.
You can get a pretty good idea by looking at last year’s site
and materials
http://web.mit.edu/6.s077/www/Intro-Doc-Stellar.pdf
https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/sp18/6.S077/
Last spring’s offering was evaluated at 6.6 out of 7.
Enjoy the holiday season!
John Tsitsiklis
Announced on 17 December 2018 10:29 a.m. by John N Tsitsiklis
Last lecture and final grades
We will hold the last lecture tomorrow - an overview of classical hypothesis testing.Unfortunately, final grades cannot be released before the end of the course evaluation period. You will be able to see them at 9am this coming Monday
-jt
Announced on 11 December 2018 2:40 p.m. by John N Tsitsiklis
Quiz 4 Solutions Posted, Regrades Due Tuesday 5 PM, Recitations Cancelled
Announced on 10 December 2018 8:12 p.m. by Samuel Adam Buercklin
Quiz 4 Results
Announced on 10 December 2018 1:44 p.m. by Samuel Adam Buercklin
TA OH cancellation
There will be no TA office hours today (12/10) or for the remainder of the semester.Announced on 10 December 2018 9:41 a.m. by Rohan B Banerjee
