MCS 256 Exam 4

This exam will be given in class on Monday, May 7.

It will be a closed-book exam. You may use one new 3"-by-5" note card with anything you want written on both sides. You may also use your 3"-by-5" note cards prepared for previous exams.

TOPICS

• Special discrete probability distributions
• Moments: mean, variance, standard deviation, others
• Moment generating functions
• Joint discrete distributions; conditional distributions; marginal distributions
• Inequalities: Markov, Chebyshev, Cauchy-Schwarz (|correlation| < 1)
• Law of Large Numbers
• Probability density functions
• Normal distributions
• Central Limit Theorem
• Recurrence relations
• Linear recurrence relations with constant coefficients ...
• ... and their solution using the characteristic equation