What's on the Midterm?
What's on the exam? Everything through the lecture on 3/3.
- Axioms and properties of probability.
- Independence, Conditional probability, Law of Total Probability, Bayes' rule.
- You must know the formulas for the following densities:
N(m,sigma²), exp(lambda), uniform[a,b].
- You must know the formulas for the following pmfs:
Bernoulli(p), binomial(n,p), Poisson(lambda).
- Properties of cdfs.
- Know how to compute the cdf and pdf of the function of a RV.
- Expectation: E[X], 2nd moment: E[X²],
var(X) = E[X²] - (E[X])².
Know integral and sum formulas for E[g(X)].