STATS 2D03 — Introduction to Probability

Tutorial notes written by Anna Ly for STATS 2D03 during the Fall 2024 semester. They were double-checked by Hyuna Seo and Abhiroop Chowdhury — Hyuna also picked the questions.

The instructors were Katherine Davies and J. E. Paguyo. We followed A First Course in Probability by Sheldon Ross, 10th edition.

The textbook has a higher emphasis on word problems. If you are interested in pursuing statistics and mathematics, I would highly recommend Probability and Statistical Inference by Hogg, Tanis, and Zimmerman instead, which focuses more heavily on mathematics.

Questions in tutorials were from the textbook, except Tutorial 7 which Hyuna came up with. Moment generating functions and the convolution transformation method were covered in the course, but there were no tutorials covering those parts.