Section	Meeting time and place	Instructor
E	9 MWF 163 Everitt Laboratory	Professor Dominguez-Garcia e-mail: aledan AT illinois dot edu Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3-4 pm in 170 EL, or by appointment
C	10 MWF 163 Everitt Laboratory	Professor Yi Lu e-mail: yilu4 AT illinois dot edu Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11 am - noon in 369 EL
D	11 MWF 163 Everitt Laboratory	Professor Yihong Wu e-mail: yihongwu AT illinois dot edu Office Hours: Wednesdays, 1-2 pm in 369 EL
F	1 MWF 218 Mechanical Engineering	Professor Bruce Hajek e-mail: b-hajek AT illinois dot edu Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2-3 pm in 369 EL

	Bussaba Amnueypornsakul (amnueyp1 AT illinois dot edu)	Office Hours: Monday 1-3PM in EL 368, Tuesday 1-3PM in EL 368, Wednesday 3.00-7.00PM in EL 170
	Xichen Jiang (xjiang4 AT illinois dot edu)	Office Hours: Friday 1-5 PM in 369 EL
	Ding Liu (dingliu2 AT illinois dot edu)	Office Hours: Monday 4-6 PM in 168 EL, Wednesday 4-6 PM in 170 EL, Thursday 2-6 PM in 369 EL

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Text : ECE 313 Course Notes (hardcopy sold through ECE Stores, pdf file available.) Corrections to notes.

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Concept constellation Concept matrix

#	Week	Concepts (Reading)[ Short videos]	Short Answer Questions and Problems for Quizzes
1 & 2	1/22-1/31	*How to specify a set of outcomes, events, and probabilities for a given experiment (Ch 1.2) *set theory (e.g. de Morgan's law, Karnaugh maps for two sets) (Ch 1.2) *using principles of counting and over counting; binomial coefficients (Ch 1.3-1.4) [ILLINI, SAQ1.3, PokerIntro, PokerFH2P] *using Karnaugh maps for three sets (Ch 1.4)[Karnaughpuzzle, SAQ1.2] *random variables, probability mass functions, and mean of a function of a random variable (LOTUS) (Ch 2.1, first two pages of Ch 2.2) [pmfmean]	SAQs (on p. 20) for Sections 1.2, 1.3, 1.4. Problems (pp. 21-23, 77-78) 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 2.2 (skip part about variance), 2.4. Quiz 1: 1/31
3	2/3-2/7	*scaling of expectation, variance, and standard deviation (Ch 2.2) [SAQ 2.2] *conditional probability (Ch 2.3) [team selection][SAQ 2.3] *independence of events and random variables (Ch 2.4.1-2.4.2)[SimdocIntro][Simdoc-Minhash1] *binomial distribution (how it arises, mean, variance, mode) (Ch 2.4.3-2.4.4)[SAQ 2.4][bestofseven]	SAQs (pp. 73-74) for Sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4. Problems (pp. 77-82) 2.6, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16, 2.18, 2.20. Quiz 2: 2/7
4	2/10 - 2/14	*geometric distribution (how it arises, mean, variance, memoryless property) (Ch. 2.5)[SAQ 2.5] *Bernoulli process (definition, connection to binomial and geometric distributions) (Ch 2.6) *Poisson distribution (how it arises, mean, variance) (Ch 2.7) *Maximum likelihood parameter estimation (definition, how to calculate for continuous and discrete parameters) (Ch 2.8)[SAQ 2.8] *Markov and Chebychev inequalities (Ch 2.9) *confidence intervals (definitions, meaning of confidence level) (Ch 2.9)[Simdoc-Minhash2]	SAQs (p. 74) for Sections 2.5-2.9. Problems (pp. 82-84) 2.22, 2.24, 2.26, 2.28. If appearing on a quiz, numerical answers are not required for problems SAQ 2.5.1 or 2.7, or Problems 2.26(b) or 2.28(a). As usual, you would need to indicate how to solve the problems up to the point a calculator is needed. Quiz 3: 2/14
5	2/17-2/21	*law of total probability (Ch 2.10) [deuce] [SAQ 2.10] *Bayes formula (Ch. 2.10) *Hypothesis testing -- probability of false alarm and probability of miss (Ch. 2.11) *ML decision rule and likelihood ratio tests (Ch 2.11) [SAQ 2.11] *MAP decision rules (Ch 2.11)	SAQs (p. 75) for Sections 2.10, 2.11. Problems (pp. 85-88) 2.30, 2.32, 2.34, 2.36, 2.38. (For 2.34 on quiz, you should realize the intervals overlap, even though you don't have a calculator.) Quiz 4: 2/21
6	2/24-2/28	*union bound (Ch 2.12.1) [SAQ 2.12] *network outage probability and distribution of capacity (Ch 2.12.2-2.12.3) *probability of undetected error for coded system (Ch 2.12.4) *cumulative distribution functions (Ch 3.1)	SAQs (p. 75, 143) for Sections 2.12, 3.1. Problems (pp. 89-90, 145-146) 2.40, 2.42, 2.44, 3.2. Quiz 5: 2/28 Exam 1: Monday, March 3
7	3/3-3/7	*probability density functions (Ch 3.2) [SAQ 3.2] [simplepdf] *uniform distribution (Ch 3.3) [SAQ 3.3] *exponential distribution (Ch 3.4) [SAQ 3.4] *Poisson processes (Ch 3.5) [SAQ 3.5] *Erlang distribution (Ch 3.5.3)	SAQs (p. 143-144) for Sections 3.2-3.5. Problems (pp.146-148) 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12. Quiz 6: Monday 3/10
8	3/10-3/14	*scaling rule for pdfs (Ch. 3.6.1)[SAQ 3.6] *Gaussian (normal) distribution (e.g. using Q and Phi functions) (Ch. 3.6.2) [SAQ 3.6] [matlab help including Qfunction.m] *the central limit theorem and Gaussian approximation (Ch. 3.6.3) [SAQ 3.6]	SAQs (p 144) for Section 3.6. Problems (pp. 149-150) 3.14, 3.16, 3.18. No class Friday (EOH!) Quiz 7: Monday 3/17
9	3/17-3/21	*ML parameter estimation for continuous type random variables (Ch. 3.7)[SAQ 3.7] *the distribution of a function of a random variable (Ch 3.8.1)[SAQ 3.8] *generating random variables with a specified distribution (Ch 3.8.2) *the area rule for expectation based on CDF (Ch 3.8.3) *failure rate functions (Ch 3.9)[SAQ 3.9] *binary hypothesis testing for continuous type random variables (Ch 3.10) [SAQ 3.10]	SAQs (pp. 144-145) for Sections 3.7-3.10. Problems (pp. 150-155) 3.20, 3.22, 3.24, 3.26, 3.28, 3.30, 3.32, 3.36 Quiz 8: Monday 3/31
		SPRING BREAK
10	3/31 - 4/3	*joint CDFs (Ch 4.1)[SAQ 4.1] *joint pmfs (Ch 4.2)[SAQ 4.2] *joint pdfs (Ch 4.3)[SAQ 4.3] *joint pdfs of independent random variables (Ch 4.4)[SAQ 4.4]	SAQs (p. 215-216) for Sections 4.1-4.4. Problems (p. 218-221) 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4.8, 4.10, 4.12. To shorten the problems on quizzes, Parts 4.2(c), 4.4(c), 4.6(c), 4.10(e), 4.12(d) will not be included. Quiz 9: Monday 4/7
11 & 12	4/7-4/18	*distribution of sums of random variables (Ch 4.5)[SAQ 4.5] *more problems involving joint densities (Ch 4.6)[SAQ 4.6] *joint pdfs of functions of random variables (Ch 4.7)[SAQ 4.7]	SAQs (pp. 216-217) for Sections 4.5, 4.6, 4.7. Problems (pp. 221-222) 4.14, 4.16. NO QUIZ 4/14 Exam 2: Monday, April 14 Quiz 10: Monday 4/21
13	4/21-4/25	*correlation and covariance (e.g. scaling properties) (Ch 4.8)[SAQ 4.8] *minimum mean square error unconstrained estimators (Ch 4.9.2) *minimum mean square error linear estimator (Ch 4.9.3)[SAQ 4.9]	SAQs (p. 217) for Sections 4.8, 4.9. Problems (p. 222-225) 4.18, 4.20, 4.22, 4.24, 4.26, 4.28. (Problem 4.26 refers back to problem 4.24.) Quiz 11: Monday 4/28
14	4/28-5/1	*law of large numbers (Ch 4.10.1) *central limit theorem (Ch 4.10.2)[SAQ 4.10] *joint Gaussian distribution (Ch 4.11) (e.g. five dimensional characterizations)[SAQ 4.11]	SAQs (p.217) for Sections 4.10-4.11 Problems (pp.225-230) 4.30, 4.32, 4.34, 4.36, 4.38, 4.40, 4.42 The note in parentheses for problem 4.30 should be updated to: The problem is related to Example 4.10.5. The example is correct. Also, part (a) should refer to Proposition 4.10.1, not 4.9.1.) Quiz 12: Monday 5/5
15	5/5-5/7	wrap up and review

Optional Reading:

• D. V. Sarwate, Probability with Engineering Applications, Powerpoint Slides for ECE 313, Fall 2000