Exercises

  1. Using the World Wide Web or any book on probability, make yourself familiar with the following concepts and definitions:
    1. Union bound (Boole's inequality)
    2. Conditional probability
    3. Random variables, expectation and variance of random variables
    4. Linearity of expectation
    5. Independence of events
    Some resources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_theory, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/