Tentative Course Schedule

The table below provides a tentative schedule for the lectures. This schedule is subject to change.

Winter 2026 Quarter Dates:

• First Day of Instruction: Monday, January 5, 2026
• Last Day of Instruction: Friday, March 13, 2026
• Finals Week: March 16-20, 2026
• Final Exam: Tuesday, March 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM

Class Schedule:

• Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
• Discussions: Thursday

Date	Events	Reading
Week 1
Mon, Jan 5	LEC 1-1Experiments, Sample Spaces, and Outcomes 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 2.1-2.3 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1.1-1.2
Tue, Jan 6	DiscussionDiscussion: R/Python for Probability
Wed, Jan 7	LEC 1-2Events and Set Theory 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 2.4-2.6 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1.1
Fri, Jan 9	LEC 1-3Naive Probability and Counting 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 2.15 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1.6
Week 2
Mon, Jan 12	LEC 2-1Probabilistic Models 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 2.3 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1.2
Tue, Jan 13	DiscussionDiscussion: Probability Axioms
Wed, Jan 14	LEC 2-2Properties of Probability (Pre-recorded - No in-person class) 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated) 📹 Recordings: Part 1: Typesetting and Literate Programming(annotated slides) Part 2: Probability Properties Part 1 Part 3: Probability Properties Part 2 ⚠️ You must be logged in to Zoom with your @ucdavis.edu email to view the recordings.	Matloff Ch. 2.4-2.6 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1.2
Fri, Jan 16	LEC 2-3Conditional Probability (Pre-recorded - No in-person class) 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated) 📹 Recording ⚠️ You must be logged in to Zoom with your @ucdavis.edu email to view the recordings. Homework 1Homework 1 Due	Matloff Ch. 2.6 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1.3
Week 3
Mon, Jan 19	No ClassNo Class - MLK Jr. Day
Tue, Jan 20	DiscussionDiscussion: Conditional Probability
Wed, Jan 21	LEC 3-1Bayes' Theorem & Law of Total Probability 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 2.9-2.12 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1.4-1.5
Fri, Jan 23	LEC 3-2Independence of Events 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 2.7-2.8 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1.5
Week 4
Mon, Jan 26	LEC 4-1Discrete RVs and PMF 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 3.5, 3.13 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 2.4
Tue, Jan 27	DiscussionDiscussion: Random Variables Homework 2Homework 2 Due
Wed, Jan 28	LEC 4-2Expectation and Variance Properties 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 3.6, 4.1-4.2 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 2.4
Fri, Jan 30	LEC 4-3Binomial and Poisson Distributions 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 3.6 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 2.2
Week 5
Mon, Feb 2	LEC 5-1Continuous RVs and PDFs 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated) Homework 3Homework 3 Due	Matloff Ch. 5.1-5.3 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 3.1-3.2
Tue, Feb 3	DiscussionDiscussion: Continuous Distributions
Wed, Feb 4	LEC 5-2Normal Distribution 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 5.6 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 3.3
Fri, Feb 6	LEC 5-3Exponential Distribution 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated) Homework 4Homework 4 Due	Matloff Ch. 5.5 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 3.2
Week 6
Mon, Feb 9	LEC 6-1Joint Distributions, Covariance, and Correlation 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 12.1-12.3, 13.1-13.2 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 2.5, 3.5, 4.2
Tue, Feb 10	DiscussionDiscussion: Joint Distributions
Wed, Feb 11	LEC 6-2Midterm Review 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Review Ch. 2-8 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 1-3
Fri, Feb 13	EventMidterm Exam
Week 7
Mon, Feb 16	No ClassNo Class - Presidents' Day
Tue, Feb 17	DiscussionDiscussion: Continuous RVs
Wed, Feb 18	LEC 7-2Binary Classification 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 7.1-7.4 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 3.1-3.2
Fri, Feb 20	LEC 7-3Law of Large Numbers & Central Limit Theorem 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 8 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 7.1-7.2
Week 8
Mon, Feb 23	LEC 8-1Maximum Likelihood Estimation 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 18.1.3 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 9.1
Tue, Feb 24	DiscussionDiscussion: Continuous Distributions
Wed, Feb 25	LEC 8-2Probability Bounds 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated) Homework 5Homework 5 Due	Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 7.1-7.2 Matloff Section 3.14
Fri, Feb 27	LEC 8-3Stochastic Processes and Markov Chains 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 7.3-7.4
Week 9
Mon, Mar 2	LEC 9-1Hypothesis Testing 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 16.1-16.4
Tue, Mar 3	DiscussionDiscussion: Limit Theorems and MLE
Wed, Mar 4	LEC 9-2Hypothesis Testing Worked Examples & Project Overview 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 16.1-16.4
Fri, Mar 6	LEC 9-3Confidence Intervals 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated) Homework 6Homework 6 Due	Matloff Ch. 16.4-16.5
Week 10
Mon, Mar 9	LEC 10-1Linear Regression I 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated)	Matloff Ch. 22.1-22.3 Bertsekas & Tsitsiklis Ch. 4.6
Tue, Mar 10	DiscussionDiscussion: Final Review
Wed, Mar 11	LEC 10-2Linear Regression II 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated) InfoExtra Study Hours: 6-7pm on Zoom InfoFinal Study Session 1 📄 Solutions 📹 Recording ⚠️ You must be logged in to Zoom with your @ucdavis.edu email to view the recordings.	Matloff Ch. 22.4-22.6
Fri, Mar 13	LEC 10-3Course Review 📄 Slides📝 Slides (Annotated) Homework 7Homework 7 Due InfoExtra Study Hours: 6-7pm on Zoom InfoFinal Study Session 2 📄 Solutions 📹 Recording ⚠️ You must be logged in to Zoom with your @ucdavis.edu email to view the recordings.
Week Finals
Mon, Mar 16	InfoExtra Study Hours: 2-4pm on Zoom InfoFinal Study Session 3 Part 1: MLE, Hypothesis Testing, and Regression 📄 Solutions 📹 Recording ⚠️ You must be logged in to Zoom with your @ucdavis.edu email to view the recordings. InfoFinal Study Session 3 Part 2: Stochastic Processes 📄 Solutions 📹 Recording ⚠️ You must be logged in to Zoom with your @ucdavis.edu email to view the recordings. InfoFinals Week Begins
Tue, Mar 17	FinalFinal Exam