ECE 313 Fall 2021, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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ECE 313/MATH 362

PROBABILITY WITH ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

Fall 2021

 

ECE 313 (also cross-listed as MATH 362) is an undergraduate course on probability theory and statistics with applications to engineering problems primarily chosen from the areas of communications, control, signal processing, and computer engineering. Students taking ECE 313 might consider taking ECE 314, Probability Lab, at the same time.

EE and CompE students must complete one of the two courses ECE 313 or Stat 410.

 

Prerequisite : Math 286 or Math 415

Exam times : See Exam information.


Text : ECE 313 Course Notes (hardcopy sold through ECE Stores, pdf file available.)


Times/locations for guided study sessions and regular office hours (beginning second week, i.e., Aug. 30).

Hours Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8-9 am       Online
Guided study
sessions
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 Zoom/location
  Online
Guided study
sessions
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 Zoom/location
 
1-2 pm 12:30-1:30 (regular)
2-3 pm
 
3-4 pm
4-5 pm Zoom/location Zoom/location Zoom/location Zoom/location
5-6 pm        

 

Section Meeting time and place Instructor

A
Zoom link

10 MWF
Online (live streamed in Zoom, recordings
in Illinois Media Space)
Professor Yuliy Baryshnikov
e-mail: ymb AT illinois dot edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 4-5PM (regular)

C
Echo 360 link

11-12:20 TuTh
1015 ECEB (live streamed in Echo 360,
 recordings
in Echo 360)
Professor Olgica Milenkovic
email: milenkov AT illinois dot edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4PM (regular, Weeks 2, 4, 6,...)

                        Wednesday 4-5PM (regular, Weeks 3, 5, 7,...)
                        location: 2017 ECEB

D
 Zoom link

1 MWF
Online (live streamed in Zoom, recordings
in Illinois Media Space)
Professor Aiguo Han
e-mail: han51 AT illinois dot edu
Office Hours: Thursday 4-5PM (guided study)

Lecture slides

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Teja Gupta
tejag2 AT illinois dot edu
Office Hours: Monday 4-5PM (regular, 2017 ECEB)
                        Friday 1-3PM (guided study, 3015 ECEB)
Kelly Levick
klevick2 AT illinois dot edu
Office Hours:  Friday 4-5PM (regular)
Srilakshmi Pattabiraman
sp16 AT illinois dot edu
Office Hours: Thursday 1-4PM (guided study)
Vishal Rana
vishalr AT illinois dot edu
Office Hours: Thursday 12:30-1:30PM (regular), Friday 8-9AM (guided study)
Lingda Wang
lingdaw2 AT illinois dot edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 4-5PM (regular), Friday 3-6PM (guided study)
Yuechen Wang
yuechen6 AT illinois dot edu

Office Hours: Monday 3-4PM (regular, online and in-person 2036 ECEB), Thursday 8-9AM (guided study)

Concept constellation

 

Course schedule (subject to change)
Quiz #
Deadline
Lecture
dates
Concepts and assigned reading)[ Short videos] Homework problems (not to hand in but similar to quiz questions)
0
Mon, 8/30
10pm
- Quiz 0 covers two topics that come up later in the course:
* the sum of a geometric series and power series for exp(x)
* basic calculus: the chain rule for differentiation and use of logarithms
Quiz 0 is a practice quiz and carries no course credit.
1
Mon, 9/6
10pm
(All quiz deadlines 10pm)
8/23-9/3 * How to specify a set of outcomes, events, and probabilities for a given experiment (Ch 1.2)
* set theory (e.g. de Morgan's law, Karnaugh maps for two sets) (Ch 1.2)
* using principles of counting and over counting; binomial coefficients (Ch 1.3-1.4) [ILLINI, SAQ 1.3, SAQ 1.4, PokerIntro, PokerFH2P]
* using Karnaugh maps for three sets (Ch 1.4) [Karnaughpuzzle, SAQ1.2]
SAQs (on p. 20) for Sections 1.2, 1.3, 1.4.

Problems (pp. 21-24) 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12.

Optional: [SAQ 1.5]
Tip for quiz 1: Make sure you can compute the numerical values of binomial coefficients. See p. 13 of the course notes.
2

Mon, 9/13
9/6-9/10 * random variables, probability mass functions, and mean of a function of a random variable (LOTUS) (Ch 2.1, first two pages of Ch 2.2) [pmfmean]
* scaling of expectation, variance, and standard deviation (Ch 2.2) [SAQ 2.2]
* conditional probability (Ch 2.3) [team selection] [SAQ 2.3]
* independence of events and random variables (Ch 2.4.1-2.4.2) [SimdocIntro] [Simdoc-Minhash1]
SAQs (pp. 74-75) for Sections 2.2-2.4

Problems (pp. 77-82) 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.16.
3

Mon, 9/20
9/13-9/17 * binomial distribution (how it arises, mean, variance, mode) (Ch 2.4.3-2.4.4) [SAQ 2.4] [bestofseven]
* geometric distribution (how it arises, mean, variance, memoryless property) (Ch. 2.5) [SAQ 2.5]
* Bernoulli process (definition, connection to binomial and geometric distributions) (Ch 2.6) [SAQ 2.6]
* Poisson distribution (how it arises, mean, variance) (Ch 2.7) [SAQ 2.7]
SAQs (p. 75) for Sections 2.4-2.7

Problems (pp. 81-84) 2.14, 2.18, 2.20, 2.22, 2.24
4

Mon, 9/27
9/20-9/24 * Maximum likelihood parameter estimation (definition, how to calculate for continuous and discrete parameters) (Ch 2.8) [SAQ 2.8]
* Markov and Chebychev inequalities (Ch 2.9)
* confidence intervals (definitions, meaning of confidence level) (Ch 2.9) [SAQ 2.9,Simdoc-Minhash2]
* law of total probability (Ch 2.10) [deuce] [SAQ 2.10]
* Bayes formula (Ch. 2.10)
SAQs (pp. 75-76) for Sections 2.8-2.10

Problems (pp. 85-88) 2.26, 2.28, 2.30, 2.32, 2.34
5

Mon, 10/4
9/27-10/1 * Hypothesis testing -- probability of false alarm and probability of miss (Ch. 2.11)
* ML decision rule and likelihood ratio tests (Ch 2.11) [SAQ 2.11]
* MAP decision rules (Ch 2.11)
* union bound and its application (Ch 2.12.1) [SAQ 2.12]
* network outage probability and distribution of capacity, and more applications of the union bound (Ch 2.12.2-2.12.4)
SAQs (p. 76) for Sections 2.11 & 2.12

Problems (pp. 88-93) 2.36, 2.38, 2.40, 2.42, 2.44, 2.46
6

Mon, 10/11
10/4-10/8 * cumulative distribution functions (Ch 3.1) [SAQ 3.1]
* probability density functions (Ch 3.2) [SAQ 3.2] [simplepdf]
* uniform distribution (Ch 3.3) [SAQ 3.3]
* exponential distribution (Ch 3.4) [SAQ 3.4]
SAQs (p. 146-147) for Sections 3.1-3.4.

Problems (pp.149-151) 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10.
7

Mon, 10/18
10/11-10/15 * Poisson processes (Ch 3.5) [SAQ 3.5]
* Erlang distribution (Ch 3.5.3)
* scaling rule for pdfs (Ch. 3.6.1) [SAQ 3.6]
* Gaussian (normal) distribution (e.g. using Q and Phi functions) (Ch. 3.6.2) [SAQ 3.6] [matlab help including Qfunction.m]
* the central limit theorem and Gaussian approximation (Ch. 3.6.3) [SAQ 3.6]
SAQs (p 147) for Sections 3.5 & 3.6 .

Problems (p. 152-154) 3.12, 3.14, 3.16, 3.18, 3.20
8

Mon, 10/25
10/18-10/22 * ML parameter estimation for continuous type random variables (Ch. 3.7) [SAQ 3.7]
* the distribution of a function of a random variable (Ch 3.8.1) [SAQ 3.8]
* generating random variables with a specified distribution (Ch 3.8.2)
* failure rate functions (Ch 3.9) [SAQ 3.9]
* binary hypothesis testing for continuous type random variables (Ch 3.10) [SAQ 3.10]
SAQs (pp. 147-148) for Sections 3.7-3.10.

Problems (pp. 154-159) 3.22, 3.24, 3.26, 3.28, 3.30, 3.32, 3.34, 3.38
9

Mon, 11/1
10/25-10/29
* joint CDFs (Ch 4.1) [SAQ 4.1]
* joint pmfs (Ch 4.2) [SAQ 4.2]
* joint pdfs (Ch 4.3) [SAQ 4.3]

SAQs (pp. 223-224) for Sections 4.1-4.3.

Problems (pp. 226-228) 4.2, 4.6, 4.10.
10

Mon, 11/15
(skip 11/8)
11/1-11/12 * joint pdfs of independent random variables (Ch 4.4) [SAQ 4.4]
* distribution of sums of random variables (Ch 4.5) [SAQ 4.5]
* more problems involving joint densities (Ch 4.6) [SAQ 4.6]
* joint pdfs of functions of random variables (Ch 4.7) [SAQ 4.7] (Section 4.7.2 and 4.7.3 will not be tested in the exams)
SAQs (p. 224) for Sections 4.4-4.7.

Problems (p. 226-230) 4.4, 4.8, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16.
11

Tue, 11/30
11/15-11/19 * correlation and covariance: scaling properties and covariances of sums (Ch 4.8) [SAQ 4.8]
* sample mean and variance of a data set, unbiased estimators (Ch 4.8, Example 4.8.7)
* minimum mean square error unconstrained estimators (Ch 4.9.2)
* minimum mean square error linear estimator (Ch 4.9.3) [SAQ 4.9]
SAQs (p. 224) for Sections 4.8-4.9.

Problems (p. 230-233) 4.18, 4.20, 4.22, 4.24, 4.26, 4.28
  11/22-11/26 Thanksgiving vacation  
12

Mon, 12/6
11/29-12/3 * law of large numbers (Ch 4.10.1)
* central limit theorem (Ch 4.10.2) [SAQ 4.10]
* joint Gaussian distribution (Ch 4.11) (e.g. five dimensional characterizations) [SAQ 4.11]
SAQs (p.225) for Sections 4.10-4.11

Problems (pp.233-237) 4.30, 4.32, 4.34, 4.36, 4.38, 4.40, 4.42.
- 12/6-12/8 wrap up and review  

Optional Reading: D. V. Sarwate, Probability with Engineering Applications, Powerpoint Slides for ECE 313 , Fall 2000


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