Info Sheet

24 July, 2014

MA3238/ST3236 Module Information

Instructor

• Assoc. Prof. Choi Kwok-Pui

Department of Statistics and Applied Probability

• Office at S16 #07-105, Faculty of Science

• Office number: 6874-4387

• Email address stackp@nus.edu.sg

Office hour To be announced

Modes of assessment

• Homework (20%)

2 homework sets will be collected and graded. Each set worths 10% of the final grade.

Due dates (To be announced)

• Mid-term test(20%)

– Friday, 3 October, 2014

– Close book test, allow 1 A4-size handwritten help sheet (2-sided)

– Venue: Section A, MPSH2

• Final examination(60%)

Close book exam, allow 2 A4-size handwritten help sheets (2-sided)

Textbooks

[R1]: SM Ross (2010). Introduction to probability models. Academic Press.

• Chapters 1 to 4

• Soft-copy of this book is available in NUS library.

[KT]: H Taylor & S Karlin (1998). An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling. Academic Press.

• Chapters 1 to 4

• Pdf of this book can be obtained (as of now) from

http://www.ime.usp.br/~fmachado/MAE5709/KarlinTaylorIntrodStochModeling.pdf.

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