ECE 413 Exams
Fall 2006
You may not take the Conflict Final Exam unless
you actually have a conflict on the regular Final Exam. You
must inform me if you have
a conflict on the Final Exam, **and** provide me with a copy of
your complete exam schedule so that if you have a conflict on the conflict
exam as well, I can try to reschedule the Conflict Final Exam to a time
when all conflictees can take the exam.
A table of values of the unit Gaussian CDF will be supplied to you if
it is needed on the exam.
Some of the topics that are on the Powerpoint Slides were not covered
in class. Of these, the following will not
be on the Final Exam: two functions of two random variables, and more
generally, n functions of n random variables except
for linear functions; order statistics including min and max, and joint distribution
of min and max; conditional pdfs fY|X(v|u), the theorem of
total probability and Bayes' formula for pdfs; conditional expectation E[Y|X] for
continuous random variables; and nonlinear minimum mean-square estimation of Y
in terms of X.
You are responsible for the following
topics: finding the
pdf of X-Y, Y/X, X2 + Y2, sqrt(X2 + Y2);
joint pdf of invertible linear transformations of n random variables; circularly
symmetric pdfs; jointly Gaussian pdfs; linear minimum mean-square estimation of Y
in terms of X; and limit theorems (Lecture 41 of the Powerpoint slides).
You may bring one 8.5" by 11" sheet of notes to each hour exam;
both sides of the sheet can be used, but the exams are closed-book
and closed-notes otherwise.
Electronic devices (calculators, cellphones, pagers, laptops, etc.)
are neither necessary nor permitted.
and
If you have forgotten the formulas for the pmf/pdf/CDF
or the mean and variance of these (or do not have them written down on your
sheets of notes,) you will not
be given these pieces of information during the exam.
Hour Exams:
Combined-section evening hour exams have been scheduled from 7 p.m.
to 8 p.m. on Mondays October 9 and November 13.
You can find copies of old hour exams by going to
the web pages of
previous offerings
of ECE 413.