ECE 341: Random Processes

Fall 2011

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NDSU – ECE .

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Instructor:                    Jacob Glower

Office Location: ECE 201

Office Hours:               MWF 1-2

Class Hours:               TR 3:30 – 5:00

Class Location:          ECE 125

Text: Probability and Stochastic Processes – Yates & Goodman – any edition

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Other References: Probability and Statistics - DrGroot – any edition

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MIT Open Courseware: Introduction to Probability and Statistics (link here)

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			Lecture	Reading	Homework
Aug 23	T	1	Syllabus Introduction: What is a random process?	Chapter 1	HW #1 Solution #1
Aug 25	R	2	Combinatorics
Aug 30*	T	3	Discrete Random Processes: Binomial distribution	Chapter 2	HW #2 Solution #2
Sep 1*	R	4	Monte-Carlo techniques with MATLAB
Sep 6	T	5	Expected Value, Mean, Variance		HW #3 Solution #3
Sep 8	R	6	Uniform, Geometric, and Pascal Distributions	Chapter 3
Sep 13*	T	7	Convolution and Discrete pdf’s		HW #4 Solution #4
Sep 15*	R	8	Conditional probability and z-transform
Sep 20	T		Review
Sep 22	R		Test #1
Sep 27*	T	9	Continuous Random Processes Uniform, Exponential, Erlang Distributions	Chapter 4	HW #5 Solution #5
Sep 29*	R	10	Monte-Carlo Techniques with MATLAB
Oct 4	T	11	Poisson Distribution & SciLab Example:	Transistor Gains Thermistor R	HW #6 Solution #6
Oct 6	R	12	Normal Distribution & Scilab Example
Oct 11*	T	13	Weibull Distribution & SciLab Examples:		HW #7 Solution #7
Oct 13*	R	14	Convolution of Continuous pdf
Oct 18	T	15	Multiple continuous random variables:
Oct 20	R	16	Conditional Probabilities	Chapter 5
Oct 25	T		Review
Oct 27	R		Test #2
Nov 1	T	17	Hypothesis Testing Student t Distribution	Chapter 9	HW #8 Solution #8
Nov 3	R	18	No class	t-table, F-table, etc
Nov 8	T	19	t-test	75k resistor values	HW #9 Solution #9
Nov 10	R	20	Chi-squared test
Nov 15	T	21	F-test		HW #10 DJIA Close 2010 2000 1990 1980 1970 1960 1950
Nov 17	R	22	Linear Estimation of X given Y
Nov 22	T	23	Go over homework
Nov 24	R		Holiday!
Nov 29	T		Review
Dec 1	R		Test #3
Dec 6	T		Case Studies
Dec 8	R		Case Studies
Dec 13	T		Final Exam – 10:30 – 12:30

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