Introduction to Probability and Statistics

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Bayesian updating with conjugate normal distributions. (Image by Jerry Orloff and Jonathan Bloom.)

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MIT Course Number

18.05

As Taught In

Spring 2014

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This course provides an elementary introduction to probability and statistics with applications. Topics include: basic combinatorics, random variables, probability distributions, Bayesian inference, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, and linear regression.

The Spring 2014 version of this subject employed the residential MITx system, which enables on-campus subjects to provide MIT students with learning and assessment tools such as online problem sets, lecture videos, reading questions, pre-lecture questions, problem set assistance, tutorial videos, exam review content, and even online exams.

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Jeremy Orloff, and Jonathan Bloom. 18.05 Introduction to Probability and Statistics. Spring 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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