Courses
taught in the
Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North
Dakota State University
ECE 341:
Random Processes
Summer
2026
Updated 08/09/2026
Instructor: Jacob Glower
Online Only
Contact:
jacob.glower@ndsu.edu
Syllabus
: Old Homework : Resources
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Mon Jun 22 |
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COMBINATORICS |
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Wed Jun 24 |
Combinations and Permutations |
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Conditional Probability:
5-Card Draw Conditional Probability |
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Fri Jun 26 |
Conditional Probability in Dice Games |
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DISCRETE
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Mon Jun 29 |
Bernoulli Trial, BETH, Convolution |
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Dice, Convolution, Central Limit Theorem |
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Wed July 1 |
Moment Generating Functions |
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Use of z-Transforms |
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Fri July 3 |
Holiday |
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Mon July 6 |
Test #1 Discrete Probability |
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Wed July 8 |
CONTINUOUS
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Continuous probability density functions |
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Fri July 10 |
Continuous convolution |
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Moment generating functions |
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Mon July 13 |
Poisson approx. for binomial |
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Mean, variance |
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Wed July 15 |
Approximating pdf |
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Normal approximation |
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Fri July 17 |
Testing with
Normal Distributions Confidence Intervals |
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Mon July 20 |
Test #2 Continuous Distributions (BlackBoard only) |
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Fri July 24 |
MARKOV CHAINS |
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Win By X |
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Mon July 27 |
DATA ANALYSIS |
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Wed July 29 |
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27 t-Test with Two Populations |
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Fri July 31 |
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Mon Aug 3 |
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Wed Aug 5 |
Test #3 Markov Chains &
Data Analysis |
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Correlation, Covariance |
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p(A | B) for continuous functions |
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Modeling disease spread |
The Economist: A Terrible Toll (sample code) |