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L1: Introduction     Ch 1, 4-15     Play     SWF    
      Conditional probability     Ch 2, 16-22     Play     SWF    
L2: Partition & Bayes Thms     Ch 2, 22-27     Play     SWF    
L3: First-step analysis     Ch 2, 27-30     Play     SWF    
       Gambler's Ruin Ch 2, 30-34     Play     SWF    
L4: Random variables, Expectation     Ch 2 & 3, 35-46     Play     SWF    
L5: Variance, covariance Ch 3, 47-50     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, 59-62     Play     SWF    
       Expected reaching times (FSA) Ch 3, 63-67     Play     SWF    
L8: Prob as cond expect Ch 3, 67-71     Play     SWF    
L9: Gene spread; Markov chains Ch 3&5, 71-73,83-86     Play     SWF    
       Transition matrices Ch 5, 86-91     Play     SWF    
L10: Trajectories, Class structure Ch 5, 91-97     Play     SWF    
L11: Hitting probs / Reaching times Ch 5, 98-107     Play     SWF    
        Equilibrium distributions Ch 6, 108-112     Play     SWF    
L12: Converging to equilibrium Ch 6, 113-117     Play     SWF    
L13: Test tips, Periodicity Ch 6, 118-122     Play     SWF    
        Examples, Two-armed Bandit      Ch 6, 122-128     Play     SWF    
L15: Test Feedback     (no picture) Play     SWF    
L15: Mathematical Induction Ch 4, 75-78     Play     SWF    
         Induction continued Ch 4, 79-82, Ch6 123-125     Play     SWF    
L16: Probability Generating Funcs     Ch 7, 129-133     Play     SWF    
L17: PGF for probabilities and sums Ch 7, 133-138     Play     SWF    
         Moments, randomly stopped sums Ch 7, 136-141     Play     SWF    
L18: Heron (end), Random Walk     Ch 7, 141-151 (No sound Play     SWF    
    for first 13 mins - sorry!)
L19: Random Walk with PGFs     Ch 7, 151-155     Play     SWF    
         Defective r.v.s     Ch 7, 155-159     Play     SWF    
L20: P(never reach goal), branching proc     Ch 7/8, 160-162     Play     SWF    
L21: Branching Processes Ch 8, 163-167     Play     SWF    
         G_n(s) = G(G(...G(s)...))     Ch 8, 167-173     Play     SWF    
L22: E(Z_n), Var(Z_n), Extinction     Ch 8/9, 174-180     Play     SWF    
L23: Probability of extinction     Ch 9, 181-184     Play     SWF    
         Conditions for extinction Ch 9, 182-187     Play     SWF    
L24: Time to extinction Ch 9, 187-194     Play     SWF    


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