CMPE 107: Mathematical Methods of Systems Analysis: Stochastic

Winter 2004

URL: www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmpe107/Winter04

Assignment page

Announcements

• 3/16/04 - The solutions of the final are out.
  
  
• 3/15/04 - Note: The Final Exam will cover all that was covered in class (see Calendar), except for the material presented in the last lecture (March 10).
  
  
• 3/14/04 - REMINDER: The final exam will be held on Monday, March 15, 7:30-10:30 pm, in Rm. 152. No textbook/notes/calculator.
  
  
• 3/12/04 - Deboja will hold an additinal Section on Sunday March 14 at 3pm in Baskin Engineering Rm 354.
  
  
• 3/10/04 - The 6th Homework is out. Since this will not be graded, I already posted its solutions. I highly recommend not to read the solutions until you tried to do the exercises by yourself.
  
  
• 3/9/04 - The grades of Quiz 4 are out.
  
  
• 3/9/04 - Deboja said that she is willing to hold extra section before the final exam if the students are interested. She is free on Thursday evening after 6:45pm and even on Saturday or Sunday in the afternoon. Please contact her directly.
  
  
• 3/2/04 - The grades for the 3rd quiz are out, together with the grades of the homeworks 1-3. Some homework grades may be missing - I will fix that by the end of the week. By that time I will also prepare histograms for the grades.
  
  
• 3/1/04 - The solutions of the 5th Homework are out.
  
  
• 2/24/04 - The 5th Homework is out. Due on Monday, March 1 in class.
  
  
• 2/24/04 - Due to the tight schedule of the course, I decided that we will only have 4 quizzes, not 5. The 4th and last quiz will be on Wednesday, March 3rd. I will still remove your worst score in the quizzes before computing the average.
  
  
• 2/23/04 - My office hours for Tuesday, February 24 are canceled. Sorry for the inconvenience.
  
  
• 2/20/04 - There was another typo/mistake in Exercise 5 (thanks Adam for pointing it out and getting 2 extra credit points). See new version of the solution.
  
  
• 2/20/04 - Only for today, Deboja's section time is moved from 5-6 pm to 3-4 pm in BE 354I
  
  
• 2/19/04 - I realized there was a typo in the last question of the quiz, so I modified the solutions accordingly.
  
  
• 2/18/04 - The solutions of the 3rd quiz are out.
  
  
• 2/18/04 - The solutions of the Homework 4 are out. (Revised versions - thanks Ian and Mark for catching errors in Problem 2 and 9 )
  
  
• 2/13/04 - There was a little error in the solution 5-b of the homework (thanks Michi for catching it). See the new version.
  
  
• 2/13/04 - The 4th Homework is out. I would like to post the solutions on Wednesday morning, so the deadline is Tuesday February 17.
  
  
• 2/13/03 - The solutions of the 3rd Homework are out - check the Assignment page.
  
  
• 2/13/03 - Quiz #3 will be held on Wednesday, Febryary 18.
  
  
• 2/11/05 - The grades of the 1st Homework are out - check the Current score sheet in the Assignment page.
  
  
• 2/10/04 - I realized that, in order to do Exercise 1 in the Homework, you need some notions that I did not cover in class. I explained what you need to know in the new version of the homework.I also extended the deadline to February 12.
  
  
• 2/7/04 - Here are the grades of the second quiz.
  
  
• 2/6/04 - Homework 3 is out - you can find it in the new Assignment Page. Homework is due by Wednesday 2/11 in class.
  
  
• 2/4/04 - Here are the solutions of the 2nd Quiz.
  
  
• 2/2/04 - I am out of town till Wednesday. Hence, my office hours on Tuesday are canceled.
  
  
• 2/1/04 - Here are the solutions of Homework 2 (Version 2)
  
  
• 1/31/04 - Here are the grades of Quiz 1. The averqage score (excluding extra-credits) is 31/42.
  
  
• 1/29/04 - Some of you pointed out that Exercise 6 and 7 in the homework are confusing. So I revised them in this new version of Homework 2.
  
  
• 1/28/04 - Here is the revised version of the 1st quiz solution (thanks Michitsugu for catching an error in problem 5-2).
  
  
• 1/27/04 - IMPORTANT: if you plan to email your solutions to the second homework, please email them directly to the grader (Alexandra), not to me!
  
  
• 1/27/04 - Here are the solutions of the 1st quiz. Note: there were two versions of the quiz. The solutions of the second version are very similar to those of the first one that are posted here.
  
  
• 1/26/04 - The second quiz will be held on Monday, February 2, during normal class time.
  
  
• 1/26/04 - Here is the second homework. Due by Saturday, January 31, with the same hand-in modalities as the first homework.Solutions will be out on February 1st.
  
  
• 1/25/04 - Only for this week, the TA's office hours are moved from Wed 3-4pm to Tue 3-4 pm.
  
  
• 1/25/04 - Here are the solutions of the 1st Homework (Revision 1 - thanks Michitsugu! - Revision 2 - thanks Oryan for catching a amsll error in Exercise 6)
  
  
• 1/20/04 - The first Quiz will be held on Monday, Jan. 26, during regular class time.
  
  
• 1/20/04 - Here is the 1st Homework. Deadline is Saturday, Jan. 24. You can hand it in directly to me in my office, or slide it under my office door, or leave it in my mailbox in BE 237. You can also email it to me or fax it to me at 831-459-4829, if you prefer. I will post the solutions on Sunday, Jan. 25.
  
  
• 1/17/04 - Here are the scores of the first and second evaluations. "Passed" in the second column means that either you scored more than 11 in the first evaluation, or that you passed the second evaluation. If you got a "Failed" or "Not taken" and you are enrolled in the class, I request that you withdraw from the course. If you are not enrolled in the course and got a "Passed", I will give you an admission code on Wednesday.
  
  Please note that I lowered the threshold in the second evaluation. The new threshold are: 2/4, 3/6 and 3/6 (originally: 3/4,4/6,4/6).
  
  
• 1/14/04 - I corrected a couple of typos (Ex. 6 part 3, Ex. 3) in the first day evaluation solutions - thanks Daniel for pointing them out.
  
  
• 1/14/04 - IMPORTANT - Before the second test we will have regular class today. Meaning that even if you passed the first test you should come to class!
  
  
• 1/13/04 - Today's review session will be in Jack's Lounge at 6pm.
  
  
• 1/12/04 - Here are the grades of the 1st day evaluation.If you scored 11 or less, you must take the second evaluation on Wednesday, Jan. 14 in class. Ditto for those who didn't take the quiz. If you got 12 or higher, you don't need to take the second quiz. If you didn't receive your secret code, or if you don't find your grade, please contact the TA (not me).
  
  
• I decided to move the second special session to Tuesday at 6pm. Location to be announced soon.
  
  
• 1/11/04 - Here is the first day test, with solutions.
  
  
• 1/6/04 - Alexandra kindly set up a Yahoo! Groups mirror for the class' newsgroup, that can be accessed also by the Cupertino and off–campus students. Here is the info to access it.
  
  
• 1/6/04 - I will hold a special session to review basics of math on Friday, January 9, 5-7 pm, in Rm 152. Everyone is welcome (especially those who didn't do well in the first day test). I will also hold a second session, date/time TBD. Here are the rules for the first day evaluation.
  
  
• 1/6/04 - Important: please send an email to the TA (Deboja) in order to get a "secret code" for the class. This code will be used to post grades on the web (including the scores for the first-day evaluation). Please get a code even if you are not enrolled yet in the class, but plan to enroll.
  
  
• 1/3//04 - Announcements related to the course will be posted here. Please check this page frequently.

General Description

• This course consists of an introduction to probability theory and its applications to computer engineering. The main goal is to develop the basic mathematical tools to build and understand models that incorporate uncertainty using a probabilistic framework. We start by introducing the axioms of probability and the rules needed to perform calculations with probabilities. We then move into the concepts of independence, conditional probability and Bayes theory, define a random variable, both discrete and continuous, and consider its probability distribution function as well as its expectation and higher order moments. We extend these ideas to the multivariate case. We consider some more advanced topics like the Law of Large Numbers and Central Limit theorem. We also consider applications to some simple stochastic processes like Markov Chains and Poisson Processes. We will consider practical application examples from real problems in computer engineering.
  
  Here is the detailed calendar of the course.
  
  
• Textbook:
  • Probability & Statistics. A. Papoulis. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-711698-5
    
    
• Grading: The course work will be weigthed as follows for the final score:
  
  
  • Homework: 10%
  • Quizzes: 50%
  • Final exam: 40%
    
    
  • Quizzes: There will be 5 quizzes throughout the course. The dates of the quiz will be posted in the course's calendar.
    
    IMPORTANT
    The lowest score you get in the quizzes will be discarded. Therefore, if for any reason you cannot take a quiz, you are covered (the corresponding "0" score will be discarded). Make-up quizzes will not be assigned.
    
    
  • The Final Exam will be held on March 15, 7:30-10:30 pm, in Rm. 152.
    
    
• Prequisites
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• MATH 024 or MATH 014 or MATH 027
• or both ENGR 027 and CMPE 016
• Prerequisites will be strictly enforced - no exceptions given.
  
  

First Day Evaluation

• Here are the rules of the first day evaluation, as discussed in class:

• If your score in the first day test is less than 75% (this is absolute score, non-curved), you will need to take a second test on Wednesday, Jan 14 at 5:30 pm (during normal class time)
• If your score in the second quiz is less than 90% 75% within each section of the quiz, it means that you don't have the prerequisites to successfully attend the course.
• The material covered by the second quiz is the same as for the first quiz. I will hold two special sessions before the date of the second quiz to review basic math needed for this course, that will help you prepare for the second quiz.

Class Newsgroup

• There is a newsgroup for this course: ucsc.class.cmpe107. It will be hand-mirrored to Yahoo! Groups cupertino107 by fire for ease of accessibility for Cupertino extension and other off-campus students.

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