Text: A First Course in Probability by Sheldon Ross. Pearson, 9th ed, 2012, ISBN: 032179477X. Course goals: This course will develop the fundamental principles of probability as well as an ...

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Explain why probability is important to statistics and data science. See the relationship between conditional and independent events in a statistical experiment. Calculate the expectation and variance ...

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