2013 lectures for Stats 325

The 2013 lectures are supplied as a back-up set for the 2014 versions.

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L1: Introduction          Play     SWF    
       Processes Ch 1, 4-15     Play     SWF    
       Conditional probability Ch 2, 16-22     Play     SWF    
L2: Partition & Bayes Thms     Ch 2, 23-28     Play     SWF    
L3: First-step analysis     Ch 2, 28-31     Play     SWF    
       Gambler's Ruin Ch 2, 31-35     Play     SWF    
L4: Random variables, Expectation     Ch 2 & 3, 35-47     Play     SWF    
L5: Variance, covariance Ch 3, 47-51     Play     SWF    
       Conditional expectation Ch 3, 51-55 Play     SWF    
L6: Total expectation & variance Ch 3, 55-59     Play     SWF    
L7: Randomly stopped sum Ch 3, 59-63     Play     SWF    
       Expected reaching times (FSA) Ch 3, 64-67     Play     SWF    
L8: Lottery example; Gene Model Ch 3, 67-71     Play     SWF    
L9: Gene spread; PGF Ch 3&4, 71-75     Play     SWF    
      Probability Generating Functions Ch 4, 75-80     Play     SWF    
L10: PGF sums, moments Ch 4, 80-84     Play     SWF    
L11: Randomly stopped sum; Heron Ch 4, 83-87     Play     SWF    
        Heron, Martingale, Random walk Ch 4, 87-98     Play     SWF    
L12: PGF in Random Walk Ch 4, 98-101     Play     SWF    
L13: Revision & Defective r.v.s Ch 4, 101-104     Play     SWF    
        Defectives      Ch 4, 104-107     Play     SWF    
L14: Induction     Ch 5, 108-114 Play     SWF    
L15: Induction end; Branching Proc Ch 5&6, 114-117     Play     SWF    
       Branching processes Ch 6, 118-121     Play     SWF    
L16: Test    
L17: Test Feedback & Braching Proc Ch 6, 122-124     Play     SWF    
       Mean and variance of Zn Ch 6/7, 124-134     Play     SWF    
L18: Extinction    Ch 7, 134-138     Play     SWF    
       Diagram for Theorem 7.1:           PDF
L19: Conditions for extinction     Ch 7, 139-142     Play     SWF    
         Time to extinction; Markov chains Ch 7/8, 143-150     Play     SWF    
L20: Markov Chains     Ch 8, 151-156     Play     SWF    
L21: Trajectories, Classes Ch 8, 156-163     Play     SWF    
         Hitting probabilities and times     Ch 8, 164-171     Play     SWF    
L22: Equilibrium     Ch 8, 171-178     Play     SWF    
L23: Convergence     Ch 9, 179-183     Play     SWF    
         Irreducible, Aperiodic Ch 9, 183-188     Play     SWF    
       PDF of Convergence Criteria    
L24: Equilibrium examples Ch 9, 188-194     Play     SWF    


Annotated PDFs are available from the Notes page.