SPRING SEMESTER 2007
STAT 650 -- Applied Stochastic processes
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS.

Text Geoffrey Grimmett and David Stirzaker Probability and Stochastic processes.

Section Problems Due
6.1 Markov processes 6.1.2, 6.1.7, 6.1.8 February 18
5.3 and 5.10 Random walk 5.3.1, 5.12.7 February 18
5.4 Branching processes 5.4.1, 5.4.2 February 18
6.2 Classification of states 6.2.1, 6.2.5 March 5
6.3 Classification of chains 6.3.1, 6.3.4 March 5
6.4 Stationary distribution 6.4.6, 6.4.7 March 5
6.6 Chains with finitely many states 6.6.8 March 5
6.8 Birth processes 6.8.4 March 12
6.9 Continuous time Markov processes 6.9.1, 6.9.9 March 12
6.11 Birth-death processes 6.11. 3 March 12
8 Random processes 8.2.1, 8.4.3, 8.5.3 April 16
9 Stationary processes 9.7.2, 9.7.3, 9.7.15 April 16
11.1-11.5 Queues 11.8.1, 11.8.6, 11.8.8 May 12
12.5 Optimal Stopping 12.5.7, 12.5.8 May 12
13.1-13.4 Brownian Motion and Diffusion processes 13.12.3, 13.12.4(*) May 12
(*) For problem 13.4 ignore the second paragraph (uniqueness and spectal density).