Learn probability concepts that can be applied in your career

What you will learn

• Understand underlying probability axioms.
• Become familiar with the concepts of independence and conditional probability.
• Study the concepts of independence and correlation.
• Work with the R statistical package.
• Learn how to update probabilities via Bayes Rule.
• Review Bootcamp lessons based on set theory and calculus.
• Apply elementary probability counting rules, including permutations and combinations.
• Get introduced to discrete and continuous random variables.
• 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.
• Learn about the properties of random variables, including the expected value, variance, and moment generating function.

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