Instructor(s)
Prof. Scott Sheffield
MIT Course Number
18.440
As Taught In
Spring 2014
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course introduces students to probability and random variables. Topics include distribution functions, binomial, geometric, hypergeometric, and Poisson distributions. The other topics covered are uniform, exponential, normal, gamma and beta distributions; conditional probability; Bayes theorem; joint distributions; Chebyshev inequality; law of large numbers; and central limit theorem.
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