Random Processes Course - Recommended reading

Software resources

• Wolfram Alpha examples for random variables
• Free Matlab courses at Matlab Academy

Supplementary books

• Intuitive Probability and Random Processes using MATLAB® by Steven M. Kay (link), available online through SCE library
• Schaum’s Outline of Probability, Random Variables, and Random Processes, 3rd Edition by Hwei Hsu (link), available online through SCE library

General knowledge links (mostly from Wikipedia)

• Examples of fallacies:
  • prosecutor’s fallacy
  • Regression fallacy that tries to explain “lucky-shot” events and fails afterwards.
  • Bad luck of a nurse that has got life imprisonment by non-careful statistical evaluation
  • Sally Clark that was found guilty of the murder of her two infant sons “statistically”.
  • Controversial Lucy Letby case.
• Nice biometry approach by Alphonse Bertillon
• Counter-intuitive Monty Hall paradox