{"id":88,"date":"2018-10-26T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:39:11","slug":"cmpsci-240-reasoning-about-uncertainty-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/2018\/10\/26\/cmpsci-240-reasoning-about-uncertainty-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"CMPSCI 240 &#8211; Reasoning About Uncertainty-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-type-text field-field-class-semester\">\n<div class=\"odd\">\n<div class=\"inline-first\">Semester: Fall<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-type-date field-field-class-year\">\n<div class=\"odd\">\n<div class=\"inline-first\">Offered: 2015<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Course Description:<\/strong>\u00a0Development of mathematical reasoning skills for problems that involve uncertainty. Each concept will be illustrated by real-world examples and demonstrated though in-class and homework exercises, some of which will involve Java programming. Counting and probability &#8212; basic counting problems, probability definitions, mean, variance, binomial distribution, Markov and Chebyshev bounds. Probabilistic reasoning &#8212; conditional probability and odds, Bayes&#8217; Law, Naive Bayes classifiers, Monte Carlo simulation. Markov chains, Markov decision processes, classical game theory, introduction to information theory. This is a core course for the new CMPSCI curriculum and may be used as a math elective for the old curriculum. Prerequisites: CMPSCI 187 (or ECE 242) and MATH 132 or consent of instructor. 4 credits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Course Text:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.athenasc.com\/probbook.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis. Introduction to Probability, 2nd Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Course Website:<\/strong>\u00a0The course website will be hosted on the UMass Moodle portal. Registered students will be able to access it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.umass.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semester: Fall Offered: 2015 Course Description:\u00a0Development of mathematical reasoning skills for problems that involve uncertainty. Each concept will be illustrated by real-world examples and demonstrated though in-class and homework exercises, some of which will involve Java programming. Counting and probability &#8212; basic counting problems, probability definitions, mean, variance, binomial distribution, Markov and Chebyshev bounds. Probabilistic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/2018\/10\/26\/cmpsci-240-reasoning-about-uncertainty-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CMPSCI 240 &#8211; Reasoning About Uncertainty-2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","group-blog","no-sidebar","hfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.cs.umass.edu\/marlin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}