ECEN 303: Random Signals and Systems

Course Information

• Instructor: Dr. Henry Pfister

• Office: ZEC 237M

Textbooks and Notes

• Required

  • Undergraduate Probability I (toc ch1 ch2 ch3 ch4 ch5 ch6 ch7 ch8 ch9 ch10 ch11 ch12)

• Optional

  • Probability and Random Processes by S. Miller and D. Childers

  • First Course in Probability (7th) by S. Ross

  • Introduction to Probability (2nd) by D. Bertsekas and J. Tsitsiklis

• Workbook

  • Schaum's Outline of Probability, Random Variables, and Random Processes by Hwei Hsu

MATLAB Resources

• MATLAB Introduction from Connexions

• MATLAB Tutorial (UFL)

• A Practical Introduction to Matlab by Mark Gockenbach

Probability via Wikipedia

• History, Interpretation, Frequentist, Probability Space, Event, Bayes’ Theorem

• Random Variable, Binomial Distribution, Geometric Distribution, Normal Distribution

• Bertrand Paradox

History and Web Resources

• History

• Famous Figures in Probability