What you will learn
- Review Bootcamp lessons based on set theory and calculus.
- Understand underlying probability axioms.
- Apply elementary probability counting rules, including permutations and combinations.
- Become familiar with the concepts of independence and conditional probability.
- Learn how to update probabilities via Bayes Rule.
- Get introduced to discrete and continuous random variables.
- Learn about the properties of random variables, including the expected value, variance, and moment generating function.
- Study functions of random variables, and how they can be used in computer simulation applications.
- Recognize joint(two-dimensional) random variables and how to extract marginal(one-dimensional) and conditional information from them.
- Study the concepts of independence and correlation.
- Work with the R statistical package.
Program Overview
Expert instruction
2 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
2 months
6 - 11 hours per week
$498
USD
For the full program experience
Courses in this program
GTx's Probability/Random Variables Professional Certificate
- Probability and Statistics I: A Gentle Introduction to Probability
- Probability and Statistics II: Random Variables – Great Expectations to Bell Curves
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