Concepts of probability; random variables; combinatorial probability; discrete and continuous distributions; joint distributions, expected values; moment generating functions; law of large numbers and central limit theorems.

Prerequisites: Math 3C or Math 4A or Math 4AI or Math 6A or Math 6AI completed with a minimum grade of C or better.

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pstat160a . Palaniappan V 3 Months Ago

curved a lots, he reads the slides but explain well. three quizzes can drop one. go to lecture and section then you will be fine.

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pstat160a . Palaniappan V 3 Months Ago

He was generous with the grading, but didn't engage in any teaching during class, just reading slides. Even the TAs pointed out errors in his exam solutions. Still, if you're okay with that, you might be satisfied.

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pstat160a . Palaniappan V 3 Months Ago

Vellaisamy demonstrated growing support / compassion for his students, but there is a huge disconnect between his theoretical lectures and the application-based exams / quizzes, consisting of 80% of the overall grade. This made his course very tricky to follow half of the time and hard to study for, but he curved the final grades very generously.

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pstat160a . Palaniappan V 3 Months Ago

He's a caring professor but be wary of his quizzes and tests! Just study up your proofs and attend TA sections, they're super helpful!!!! He gave us a generous curve at the end :)

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pstat160a . Palaniappan V 3 Months Ago

Prof Samy's PSTAT 160A is hard and his accent is hard to understand, but he is a very nice gentleman. He gave out a nice curve at the end, but throughout the quarter his HW and Quizzes and Exams are hard, consisting of proofs on EVERY test. Lecture Slides are clear though. Explanations are not the best but ok. Go to sections; TAs are rly helpful.

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