In the popular puzzle Rubik's Cube invented in 1974 by Ernő Rubik, each turn of the puzzle faces creates a permutation of the surface colors. (Image by Kristin on flickr. License CC BY-NC-SA.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Scott Sheffield
MIT Course Number
18.600
As Taught In
Fall 2019
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Educator 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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