Thursday, May 28, 2009

Probability for Life Science



Lecturer: Prof. Herbert Enderton
College/University: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

  1. Events, Sample Space, and Probability Function
  2. Basic Properties of the Probability Function, Multiplication Principle, Addition Principle, Permutation
  3. Combinations, Permutation of n Objects Not All Distinct
  4. Other Properties of the Probabilty Function
  5. Conditional Probability
  6. Law of Total Probability, Bayes' Rule, and Independent Events
  7. Independence of Two or More Events
  8. Discrete Random Variables, Probability Mass Function, Cumulative Distribution Function, and Expected Value
  9. Properties of Expected Value, Variance and Standard Deviation of a Random Variable
  10. Binomial Distribution, Joint Distributions, Independent Random Variables and Other Properties
  11. Review
  12. Multinomial Distribution, Geometric Distribution
  13. Expected Value and Standard Deviation of a Geometric Distribution, Negative Binomial Distribution
  14. Poisson Distribution
  15. Expected Value, Variance and Standard Deviation of the Poisson Distribution
  16. Continuous Random Variable, Probability Density Function
  17. Mean and Variance of Continuous Random Variable, Exponential Distribution
  18. Variance and Standard Deviation of an Exponential Distribution, Exponential Distribution with Parameter Lamda as a Function of Another Variable
  19. Standard Normal Distribution and Its Properties
  20. Normal Distribution with Mean "Mu" and Standard Deviation "Sigma"
  21. Central Limit Theorem
  22. Applications of Central Limit Theorem
  23. Review
  24. Confidence Interval (Part I)
  25. Confidence Interval (Part II)
  26. Markov's Inequality, Chebyshev's Inequality, Law of Large Numbers
  27. Determining Sample Size and Confidence Interval
  28. Review