Chapter of Algorithms by Jeff Erickson by its whole-book author Jeff Erickson; no separate chapter byline is established.
Discrete Probability by Jeff Erickson 2026-10-18
By Jeff Erickson, whose author website explicitly identifies the additional lecture notes as his own. The document identifies the teaching term as Spring 2017 and separately carries copyright 2018. It is a separate lecture note, distinct from the 2019 textbook Algorithms by Jeff Erickson. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hosts the author’s website.
Cited passages: §1.2.2 Expectation, printed p. 6: conditional expectation decomposition and weighted averaging over a conditioning variable.; Printed p. 7: linearity of expectation without independence.; jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/ opening byline and statement that the linked additional notes were written by Jeff Erickson..