<19/05/2009>Aggregate marks is posted!
14/05/2009: Final dispute time: Friday 1:30 - 5:00 p.m. and next Monday 1:30 - 5:00 p.m. Location: for ERG2040C, ZHU Lei, SHB 803; for eERG2040D, CUI Yuanyuan, SHB 825.
01/05/2009: The supplemental notes of tutorial 10 are posted.
29/04/2009: You can bring 3 A4 (double-sided) sheets to the final exam.
21/04/2009: You can get back your assignment 8 at SHB 825.
20/04/2009: Slides of Tutorial 12 is posted. Due to time conflict, we will not give presentation for this tutorial. Please study the slides yourselves and turn to Tutor (Cui Yuanyuan) for help if you have questions.
14/04/2009: Deadline of Assignment 8 is extended to 6:00pm Apr.17.
12/04/2009: Mon.'s tutorial (Apr. 13th) is cancelled due to the holiday.
03/04/2009: You can get back your assignment 6 at the door of SHB 733.
03/04/2009: You can get back your assignment 7 in a green plastic bag at the door of SHB 826B.
30/03/2009: This Monday's tutorials are cancelled because the tutor suddenly fell ill. You may attend the Wednesday and Thursday's sessions.
25/03/2009: You can get back your assignment 5 at SHB 803.
02/03/2009: Midterm check time: 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Location: for erg2040C, ZHU Lei, SHB 803; for erg2040d, CUI Yuanyuan, SHB 825.
02/03/2009: This week's tutorials are about the answers of the mid-term exam.
23/02/2009: Normal distribution and Probability Generation Function will both NOT be covered in midterm exam.
23/02/2009: A review before the mid-term exam is provided in this week's tutorials. Thursday's tutorial is cancelled due to the exam.
19/02/2009: You are allowed to bring in two A4 cheat sheets (4 sides altogether) for the midterm next week.
19/02/2009: As many students required, IE General Office will help you order the textbook. If you want to buy a copy, please send e-mail to lqw008@ie.cuhk.edu.hk with your student ID number and the quantity before 9:00 am on Feb 23rd, Monday.
19/02/2009: You can get back your assignment 4 at SHB 825.
16/02/2009: Professor Liew Soung-chang will be holding a remedial class for calculus in HSB RM 833 next Friday (Feb 20) at 5:00pm.
12/02/2009: You can get back your assignment 3 in a green plastic bag at the door of SHB 826B.
11/02/2009: You can get back your assignment 2 at the door of SHB 733. (In the Section 1.11, Problem 5, P(T3) = 4*P(T1) is also acceptable.)
09/02/2009: You can get back your assignment 1 at the door of SHB 803.
03/02/2009: For erg2040c students: The guest lecture of Professor John Lui will be next Thursday, 12 February.
02/02/2009: Homework 3 has been posted.
20/01/2009: Time of Midterm Exam: Feb. 26th.
16/01/2009: Tuturial locations are announced.
15/01/2009: Homework 2 has been posted. Please submit your answers to the collection box of ERG2040C on 8F SHB.
11/01/2009: We'll start tutorials from the 3rd week (Jan. 19th, 2009) as the registration & examination section hasn't replied our form of booking classrooms.
11/01/2009: New course reference material is posted. See Course Info
08/01/2009: Tutorial Time: M11 --> M12?? One student suggested us to change M12 to M11 for the sake of going home earlier. If you object it, please email to cyy007@ie.cuhk.edu.hk. Thanks!
08/01/2009: Tutorial Time: M9, M12, W6, H7; If you REALLY CAN NOT attend any of them, please email to cyy007@ie.cuhk.edu.hk and indicate your reason clearly BEFORE Jan 9 11:00am. Thanks for your cooperation!
06/01/2009: Slides 36-97 of Lecture 1 are not covered.
06/01/2009: Homework 1 has been posted. Please submit your answers to the collection box of ERG2040C on 8F SHB.
06/01/2009: ERG2040C&D WEEKLY PROGRESS can be seen in the Lecture Notes part.
05/01/2009: Welcome to ERG2040 C&D. The course materials of last year can be find here.
Instructor:
| (ERG2040C) | PROF YUM Peter Tak Shing, | SHB 611, | E-mail: tsyum [@] ie.cuhk.edu.hk |
| (ERG2040D) | PROF LIEW Soung Chang, | SHB 836, | E-mail: soung [@] ie.cuhk.edu.hk |
Teaching assistants:
| Name | Office | Phone Number | E-mail Addess | Office Hours |
| CUI Yuanyuan | SHB 825 | 2609-8382 | cyy007 [@] ie.cuhk.edu.hk | Mon 4:30-5:30 p.m., Thu 4:30-5:30 p.m. |
| LI Qiwei | SHB 733 (in 735) | 2609-8366 | lqw008 [@] ie.cuhk.edu.hk | Fri 1:00-3:00 p.m. |
| ZHANG Wei | SHB 826B | 3163-4327 | zw007 [@] ie.cuhk.edu.hk | Wed 2:00-4:00p.m. |
| ZHU Lei | SHB 803 | 2609-8493 | lzhu6 [@] ie.cuhk.edu.hk | Tue 2:30-4:30 p.m. |
Course web site: http://course.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~erg2040c/
Course newsgroup: cuhk.erg.2040c
Lectures:
| (ERG2040C) | Tue 8:30-9:15am in LSB LT2, | Thu 12:30-2:15pm in LSB LT5 |
| (ERG2040D) | Tue 8:30-9:15am in LSB 241, | Thu 12:30-2:15pm in SC L3 |
Tutorials/Discussions:
| Time | M10 (3rd week) / M9 (from 5th week) | M11 | W6 | H7 |
| Location | SHB 833 (3rd week) / LSB LT5 (from 5th week) | UCA 104 | ELB 206 | ERB 1009 (3rd week) / MMW 710 (from 5th week) |
Evaluation:
There will be homework sets (20% of the course grade), one midterm (30% of grade), and a final exam (50% of grade).
Texts: (Only first five chapters will be covered.)
Course Outline: download
Reference material: download
| Chapter 1 | Lecture Notes (Slides 36-97 are not covered) |
Week 1.1: page 1-6 Week 1.2: page 7-36, 99-109 Week 2.1: page 109-127, 141 Week 2.2: page 141 - 145 |
Sample Space; Events; Combinatorial Problems Conditional Probability; Bayes' Rule; Bernoulli Trial; Reliability Construction |
| Chapter 2 | Lecture Notes Supplemental Notes |
Week 2.2: page 1-31 Week 3.1: page 32-37 Week 5.1: page 88-91 |
Random Variable; PMF; CDF Binomial Discrete Convolution |
| Chapter 3 | Lecture Notes Supplemental Notes Basic Calculus |
Week 5.1: page 1-14 Week 5.2: page 1-80 Week 6.1 : page 81-83 |
Exponential distribution Uniform, Normal, Pareto distribution Functions of Random Variables |
| Chapter 4 | Lecture Notes Supplemental Notes |
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| Chapter 5 | Lecture Notes Supplemental Notes Gambler's Ruin |
All assignments are referred to the textbook unless otherwise specified.
| 06/01/2009 | Assignment 1 | Sec. 1.3: Problem 1, Sec. 1.8: Problems 1, 2, and 5 |
(Read: page 1 - 37) | (Due: 6:00 p.m. Jan, 21st, 2009) | Suggested Solution |
| 15/01/2009 | Assignment 2 | Sec. 1.10: Problems 1, 3, Sec. 1.11: Problems 4, 5, Sec. 1.12: Problems 2, 8 |
(Read: Sec. 1.11 and 1.12) | (Due: 6:00 p.m. Feb, 4th, 2009) | Suggested Solution |
| 02/02/2009 | Assignment 3 | Sec. 2.5: Problems 2, 3, 5, 7 Sec. 2.8: Problems 1, 2 |
(Due: 6:00 p.m. Feb, 11th, 2009) | Suggested Solution | |
| 10/02/2009 | Assignment 4 | Sec. 2.9: Problems 1, 5 Sec. 3.1: Problems 1, 2 Sec. 3.2: Problems 1 Sec. 3.3: Problems 1 |
(Due: 6:00 p.m. Feb, 18th, 2009) | Suggested Solution | |
| 09/03/2009 | Assignment 5 | Sec. 3.4: Problems 1 Sec. 3.5: Problems 2, 3 Sec. 3.6: Problems 3 Sec. 3.9: Problems 3 Sec. 4.2: Problems 3 Sec. 4.3: Problems 1, 5 |
(Due: 6:00 p.m. Mar, 17th, 2009) | Suggested Solution | |
| 09/03/2009 | Assignment 6 | Sec. 4.4: Problems 1 Sec. 4.5: Problems 1, 2, 6 Sec. 4.6: Problems 3, 13 |
(Due: 6:00 p.m. Mar, 24th, 2009) | Suggested Solution | |
| 25/03/2009 | Assignment 7 | Sec. 4.7: Problems 1, 4 Sec. 5.1: Problems 4, 5 Sec. 5.2: Problems 3 |
(Due: 6:00 p.m. Apr, 2nd, 2009) | Suggested Solution | |
| 25/03/2009 | Assignment 8 | Sec. 5.3: Problems 3, 4 Sec. 5.4: Problems 1 Sec. 5.5: Problems 2, 3 |
(Due: 6:00 p.m. Apr, 14th, 2009) | Suggested Solution |
| Midterm | Solution |
| Final | Solution |
| Marks | download |
| 19/01/2009 | Tutorial 1 | |
| 02/02/2009 | Tutorial 2 | Supplemental Notes |
| 09/02/2009 | Tutorial 3 | |
| 16/02/2009 | Tutorial 4 | |
| 23/02/2009 | Tutorial 5 | |
| 02/03/2009 | Tutorial 6 | |
| 09/03/2009 | Tutorial 7 | |
| 16/03/2009 | Tutorial 8 | |
| 31/03/2009 | Tutorial 9 | |
| 31/03/2009 | Tutorial 10 | Supplemental Notes |
| 06/04/2009 | Tutorial 11 | |
| 06/04/2009 | Tutorial 12 |