STAT 302: Introduction to Probability Theory – Syllabus
Instructors: Mike Marin and Eugenia Yu
Offices: LSK 374 and LSK 372
Emails: mmarin@stat.ubc.ca and eugenia@stat.ubc.ca
Instructors’ office hours: by appointment
TA office hours: Mon 11-12, and Tue 12-1 (will be held in LSK 312)
Warning: There is an exclusion between this course and STAT 241/251
Description: Basic notions of probability, random variables, expectations and
conditional expectations, discrete and continuous probability distributions and limit
theorems.
Text: A first Course in Probability, 7th Edition, Sheldon Ross
Course Webpage: www.slate.stat.ubc.ca
follow the links to the course webpage
Prerequisites: MATH 200 or 226 *MATH 302 is the same as STAT 302
Topics to be covered: Chapters 1-8, excluding selected topics from each chapter.
Assessment:
 Assignments (3) 20% (Due dates are Feb 3, Mar 19 and Apr 3)
 Midterm 30% (Thu Feb 26 for Sec 201, and Wed Feb 25 for Sec 202)
 Final exam 50% *you must pass the final exam to pass the course.