BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

ECE 341: Random Processes

Summer 2025

Updated 05/01/2025

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Instructor: Jacob Glower

MTuWThF 12-2:15pm,ECE 125

Office Hours: 7pm - 8pm, M-F (on zoom)

Contact: jacob.glower@ndsu.edu

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Syllabus : Old Homework : Resources

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		Lecture Notes	Video YouTube PlayList	Sample Code & Other References	Homework
Mo	May 19	Holiday -
Tu	May 20	0: Introduction to ECE 341 Slides #0	0: Introduction	0: Farkle.txt 0: Poker.txt	HW #1
		COMBINATORICS Tree Diagrams and Enumeration Slides #1	1: Tree Diagrams	1: Farkle 1: Poker 1: Risk StatTrek: Probability
We	May 21	Poker: 5-Card Stud Slides #2 Combinations and Permutations	2: Combinations	2: Stud Poker StatTrek: Combinations	HW #2
		Poker: 5-Card Draw Slides #3 Conditional Probability	3: Conditional Prob	Draw Poker (5 card) Draw Poker (6 card) StatTrek: Poker Odds
Th	May 22	Dice Games: Farkle Slides #4 Conditional Probability in Dice Games	4: Farkle Odds	4: Farkle (MC) 4: Farkle (enum)	HW #3
		DISCRETE PROBABILTY z-Transforms Slides #5	5: z-Transform
Fr	May 23	Binomial Distribution Slides #6 Bernoulli Trial, BETH, Convolution	6: Binomial StatTrek: Binomial	BC Campus: Binomial	HW #4
		Uniform Distribution Slides #7 Dice, Convolution, Central Limit Theorem	7: Uniform
Mo	May 26 Holiday	Holiday -
Tu	May 27	Geometric Distribution Slides #8 Moment Generating Functions	8: Geometric StatTrek: Hypergeometric	BC Campus: Geometric Wikipedia: Geometric BC Campus: Hypergeometric	HW #5
		Pascal Distribution Slides #9 Use of z-Transforms	9: Pascal	Wikipedia: Correlation Wikipedia: Pascal
We	May 28	Test #1 Discrete Probability			Test #1 Available in-class Also available on BlackBoard 6am - midnight
Th	May 29	CONTINUOUS PROBABILTY LaPlace Transforms Slides #10	10: LaPlace	BC Campus: Continuous pdf	HW #6
		Continuous pdf & cdf Slides #11 Continuous probability density functions	11: Continuous pdf
Fr	May 30	Uniform Distribution Slides #12 Continuous convolution	12: Uniform	BC Campus: Uniform Wikipedia: Uniform	HW #7
		Exponential Distribution Slides #13 Moment generating functions	13: Exponential	BC Campus: Exponential Wikipedia: Exponential
Mo	Jun 2	Gamma and Poisson Slides #14 Poisson approx. for binomial	14: Gamma StatTrek Poisson	BC Campus: Poisson Wikipedia: Poisson	HW #8
		Normal Distribution Slides #15 Mean, variance	15: Normal StatTrek: Normal	Standard Normal Table - BC Campus: Normal Wikipedia: Normal
Tu	Jun 3	Weibull Distribution Slides #16 Approximating pdf	16: Weibull	Wikipedia: Weibull	HW #9
		Central Limit Theorem Slides #17 Normal approximation to pdf’s	17: CLT	BC Campus: CLT Wikipedia: CLT
We	Jun 4	Testing with Normal Distributions Slides #18 Confidence Intervals	18: Testing	BC Campus: Testing BC Campus: Type I/II Errors	HW #10
		Regression Analysis Slides #19	19: Regression	StatTrek: Linear Regression Wikipedia: Regression
Th	Jun 5	Test #2 Continuous Distributions -			Test #2 Available in-class Also available on BlackBoard 6am - midnight
Fr	Jun 6	MARKOV CHAINS Markov Chains Slides #20	20: Markov	Wikipedia: Markov Chains	HW #11
		Absorbing States and z-transform Slides #21 Win By X	21: Absorbing States
Mo	Jun 9	DATA ANALYSIS Student-t Test Slides 23a	23a t-Test	Student t-Table - BC Campus: t-test Wikipedia: t-test	HW #12
		t-tests for a single population Slides #23b	23b t-Test
Tu	Jun 10	t-tests with two populations Slides #24a	24a t-Test with 2 pop (with sound)		HW #13
		t-Test Examples Slides 24b	24b t-Test with 2 pop (with sound)
We	Jun 11	Chi-Squared Test Slides #25	25: Chi-Squared Test	Chi-Squared Table - BC Campus: Chi-Squared Wikipedia: Chi-Squared	HW #14
		Chi-Squared Examples Slides #26	26: Chi-Squared Examples
Th	Jun 12	F-Test: ANOVA Slides #27	27: F-test On-Way ANOVA StatTrek: F Distribution	ANOVA (matlab code) - BC Campus: F Distribution Wikipedia: F-Test StatTrek: ANOVA	HW #15
Fr	Jun 13	Test #3 Data Analysis			Test #3 Available in-class Also available on BlackBoard 6am - midnight
		Multiple Continuous Variables Correlation, Covariance
		Conditional Probability p(A | B) for continuous functions
		Corona Virus Slides #22 Modeling disease spread	22: CoronaVirus	The Economist: A Terrible Toll CoronaVirus,m (sample code)