Last Year's Lecture Recordings for Stats 325

This is the full set of lecture recordings for the 2010 version of Stats 325.

They are provided for people who want to self-study at a different pace from the lectures delivered in class.

Note: this semester's course will have mostly the same content but it will be covered in a different order. If you use these recordings, make sure you select the content we are currently covering in class.

The recordings for this semester's lectures are here.

Please send comments to Rachel Fewster.


L1: Introduction     Ch 1, 3-7     Play     SWF    
       Processes Ch 1, 7-14     Play     SWF    
       Conditional probability Ch 2, 15-17     Play     SWF    
L2: Conditioning     Ch 2, 18-22     Play     SWF    
L3: Partition Thm     Ch 2, 22-26     Play     SWF    
       First-step analysis Ch 2, 27-30     Play     SWF    
L4: Gambler's Ruin     Ch 2, 30-33     Play     SWF    
L5: Random variables Ch 2, 33-39     Play     SWF    
       Expectation, Variance Ch 3, 39-47 Play     SWF    
L6: Covariance, Cond Expectation Ch 3, 47-51     Play     SWF    
L7: E(X) = E(E(X | Y)) Ch 3, 51-54     Play     SWF    
       Randomly stopped sum Ch 3, 54-58     Play     SWF    
L8: Expected reaching times Ch 3, 59-64     Play     SWF    
L9: Prob as cond expect Ch 3, 64-67     Play     SWF    
       PGF intro Ch 4, 68-71     Play     SWF    
L10: PGF probabilities Ch 4, 72-75     Play     SWF    
L11: PGF of sums Ch 4, 75-79     Play     SWF    
        Heron, Radius of Conv Ch 4, 80-86     Play     SWF    
L12: PGF in Random Walk Ch 4, 86-91     Play     SWF    
L13: Revision & Defective r.v.s Ch 4, 92-94     Play     SWF    
        Defectives      Ch 4, 94-96     Play     SWF    
L14: Induction     Ch 5, 98-103 Play     SWF    
L15: Test examples; finish Induction Ch 5, 103-105     Play     SWF     Test examples PDF    
         Branching processes Ch 6, 106-107     Play     SWF     Recording lost, using 2009 (sorry)
L16: Test    
L17: Test Feedback & Braching Proc Ch 6, 108-110     Play     SWF    
         Gn(s) = G(G(...G(s)...)) Ch 6, 110-117     Play     SWF    
L18: E(Zn), Var(Zn), Extinction     Ch 6/7, 118-124     Play     SWF    
L19: Extinction probability     Ch 7, 124-128     Play     SWF    
         Diagram for Theorem 7.1:          PDF
         Conditions for extinction Ch 7, 125-131     Play     SWF    
         Ass 4 Q1b tips          PDF Play     SWF    
L20: Extinction time / Markov Chains     Ch 7/8, 132-140     Play     SWF    
L21: Markov Chains Ch 8, 140-146     Play     SWF    
         Trajectories; Class structure     Ch 8, 146-154     Play     SWF    
L22: Hitting probs and times     Ch 8, 154-163     Play     SWF    
L23: Equilibrium     Ch 9, 164-168     Play     SWF    
         Convergence; Periodicity Ch 9, 169-175     Play     SWF    
L24: Equilibrium examples Ch 9, 176-182     Play     SWF     PDF of extra sheet    


Annotated PDFs are available from the Notes page.