COMPSCI 240: Reasoning Under Uncertainty
Undergraduate Course, Graduate Teaching Assistant, UMass Amherst, Computer Science Department, 2023
Spring of 2023, Summer of 2023
Development of mathematical reasoning skills for problems that involve uncertainty. Each concept will be illustrated by real-world examples and demonstrated through in-class and homework exercises. Counting and probability – basic counting problems, probability definitions, mean, variance, binomial distribution, discrete random variables, continuous random variables, Markov and Chebyshev bounds, Laws of large numbers, and central limit theorem. Probabilistic reasoning – conditional probability and odds, Bayes’ Law, Markov Chains, Bayesian Networks.