Title: Probability       Module Code: CA219

General Information

The approved university module specification.

Lecture Schedule

Wed 12-1: C104

Thurs 12-1: XG19

Labs

Wed 4-5 and 5-6: LG25

Projects will be assessed during the last week of semester

Tutorials

Self study tutorials are available at Interactive Tutorials  

Textbook

Probability with R: An Introduction with computer science applications, Jane M Horgan, Wiley 2008

The book has an associated website

Lecture Notes

Part

 

 

 

 

 

 

1: The R Language

Week 1, Chapters 1-3

 

 

 

2: Fundamentals of Probabilities

 Chapter 4

 Chapter 5

 Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

 

3: Discrete Distributions

Chapter 9

 

Chapter 10

 

Chapter 11

 

Chapter 12

 

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

4: Continuous distributions

Chapter 15

 

Chapter 16

 

Chapter 17

 

Chapter 18

 

Chapter 19

 

5: Tailing Off

Chapter 20

 

 

 

 

 

The R Statistical System

What is R

 

Self study R-tutorials are available on YouTube  

Project

Details of the project are available here.

 

Data for the project: Results.txt

 

R code suggestions for project available here.

 

Project assessment will take place on Thurs 17th of December. Timetable.

 

Course Assessment

Exam: 80%     Project: 20%

Professor Jane Horgan, School of  Computing, Dublin City University,
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 700 5260 Fax: +353 (0)1 7005442
email: jane.horgan @ computing.dcu.ie