Course Outline
Course Outline
Lecture
Schedule
Thursday
(06:00 pm 09:00 pm)
Semester
Spring 2013
Credit Hours
Three
Pre-requisite
Graduate Standing
Instructor
Contact
[email protected]
Extension. 428
Office
Office Hours
Teaching
Assistant
Contact
Office
N/A
Office Hours
N/A
Course
Description
This is a graduate level course in probability theory and random processes that is a
pre-requisite for almost all graduate level courses in communications, signal
processing, controls and networks. The course will cover: axiomatic foundations of
probability theory, random variables, distributions, densities, functions of a random
variable, functions of several random variables, moment generating functions,
random vectors, sequences, and functions, linear transformations, second moment
theory, spectral densities, Gaussian processes, stationary processes, correlation
detection and linear minimum mean square error estimation.
Expected
Outcomes
Textbooks
Grading
Policy
Assignments:
Quizzes:
Midterm [In Class]:
15%
10%
25%
Final:
50%
Lecture Plan
Lectures
1*
1*
2*
2*
1*
0.5
0.5
2*
1*
1*
1*
1.5*
0.5*
* - Tentative
Topics
Basic Concepts
Axiomatic Probability Theory
Discrete Probability Space
Independent Events
Repeated Trials
Single and Multiple Events
Distributions Binomial and Gaussian
Random Variables
Distribution and Density Functions
Conditional density functions
Functions of A Random Variable, Y = g(X)
Distribution and Density Functions
Conditional density functions
Functions of Two Random Variables, Z = g(X, Y)
Distribution and Density Functions
Conditional density functions
REVIEW
MIDTERM
Moment Generating Functions
First and Second order Moments
Conditional Moments
Characteristic Functions
Sequence of Random Variables
Sum, Product
Random Vector
Stochastic Process
Introduction
Stationary Random Process
Strict Sense Stationary
Wide Sense Stationary
Second Moment Theory
Autocorrelation
K-L Expansion
Linear Systems
Power Spectral Density
Gaussian Process
Ergodicity
Introduction
Readings
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Notes
Notes
Notes
Notes