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<math> E[X] = \sum_x x p_X(x) </math>
  
 
=== Joint PMFs of more than one random variable ===
 
=== Joint PMFs of more than one random variable ===

Revision as of 07:28, 18 September 2008

You can get/put ideas for what should be on the cheat sheet here.

Axioms of probability (finite spaces, infinite spaces)

$ P(A) \geq 0 $ for all events A

Sequential and continuous probability models

Properties of probability laws

Conditional probability

Independence

Conditional Independence

Random Variables

Probability mass functions

Common random variables (Bernoulli, binomial, geometric) and how they come about

Functions of random variables

Mean and Variance, and their properties

$  E[X] = \sum_x x p_X(x)  $

Joint PMFs of more than one random variable

Alumni Liaison

Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and Purdue Alumni

Prof. Dan Fleetwood