Reid Huntsinger
Community College of Philadelphia
Mathematics Department

Math 152 Probability


Some "paradoxes" involving probability, especially the Monty Hall problem. Gambling. Origins of probability and statistics. Sample spaces, probability measures and densities. Independence. Random variables. Marginal and joint distributions. Conditional probability. Contingency tables. Simpson's paradox. Tests of hypotheses. Markov chains. Expectation. Martingales and fair gambling games. Law of large numbers, central limit theorem and the "bell curve".

Notes and homework assignments (Spring 2007)


Course outline (some typos and other errors here)
Homework assignment 1
Lab assignment 1
Lab Assignment 2