{"id":127,"date":"2013-11-18T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T17:06:02","slug":"probability-statistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/subjects\/probability-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Probability &#038; Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Probability the SJUT undergraduate mathematics course <a title=\"MAT201 Probability and Statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/courselist\/mat201\/\">MAT201<\/a> draws heavily on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science\/6-041-probabilistic-systems-analysis-and-applied-probability-fall-2010\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability<\/a> course (MIT Course Number 6.041 \/ 6.431 taught by Prof. John Tsitsiklis), which is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Open Courseware<\/a> (OCW). There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Probability\" target=\"_blank\">Wikibook on Probability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Statistics side, a good place to start is <a title=\"Lane online statistics resources\" href=\"http:\/\/davidmlane.com\/hyperstat\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/davidmlane.com\/hyperstat\/<\/a> or try looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Statistics\" target=\"_blank\">Wikibook on Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Khan Academy Probability\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/math\/probability\" target=\"_blank\">Khan Academy Probability and Statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Intro to Prob &amp; Stats Using R\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsur.org\/IPSUR.html\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R<\/a> ( or <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/IPSUR\/vignettes\/IPSUR.pdf\u200e\" target=\"_blank\">download the .pdf book<\/a>). R an open source software language, which has a user community that has developed many, many special packages for doing statistical work. For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Comprehensive R Archive Network<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Chance Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~chance\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chance<\/a>, which is a quantitative literacy course developed cooperatively by the Chance Team: <a title=\"J. Laurie Snell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~chance\/Laurie.html\" target=\"_blank\">J. Laurie Snell<\/a> and <a title=\"Peter Doyle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.math.dartmouth.edu\/%7Edoyle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Doyle<\/a> of Dartmouth College, <a title=\"Joan Garfield\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cehd.umn.edu\/EdPsych\/people\/Faculty\/Garfield.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Garfield<\/a> of the University of Minnesota, <a title=\"Tom Moore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.grin.edu\/~mooret\/vita\/Tom-Moore-vita.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Moore<\/a> of Grinnell College, <a title=\"Bill Peterson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.middlebury.edu\/~wpeterso\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Peterson<\/a> of Middlebury College, and <a title=\"Nagambal Shah\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spelman.edu\/academics\/faculty\/nagambal-shah\" target=\"_blank\">Ngambal Shah<\/a> of Spelman College. Also the <a href=\"http:\/\/test.causeweb.org\/wiki\/chance\/index.php\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Chance wiki<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Markov chains are covered nicely in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~chance\/teaching_aids\/books_articles\/probability_book\/Chapter11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a chapter from the Chance project materials<\/a><\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Probability the SJUT undergraduate mathematics course MAT201 draws heavily on the Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability course (MIT Course Number 6.041 \/ 6.431 taught by Prof. John Tsitsiklis), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions\/146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}