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Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up 
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Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up
 at 
Harvard University 
Overview

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics.

Duration

7 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Course Level

UG Certificate

Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up
 at 
Harvard University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Harvard University
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Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up
 at 
Harvard University 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • An increased appreciation for, and reduced fear of, basic probability and statistics
  • How to solve combinatorial counting problems
  • How to solve problems using basic and advanced probability
  • An introductory understanding of the normal distribution and its many statistical applications
  • An ability to recognize common fallacies in probability, as well as some of the ways in which statistics are abused or simply misunderstood
More about this course
  • In Modules 1 and 2, you will be introduced to basic counting skills that you will build upon throughout the course
  • In Module 3, you will apply those skills to simple problems in probability
  • In Modules 4 through 6, you will explore how those ideas and techniques can be adapted to answer a greater range of probability problems
  • Lastly, in Module 7, you will be introduced to statistics through the notion of expected value, variance, and the normal distribution
  • You will see how to use these ideas to approximate probabilities in situations where it is difficult to calculate their exact values

Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up
 at 
Harvard University 
Curriculum

Basic Counting

Advanced Counting

Basic Probability

Expected Value

Conditional Probability

Bernoulli Trials

The Normal Distribution

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Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up
 at 
Harvard University 
Faculty details

Benedict Gross
Designation : Leverett Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, Harvard University
Joseph Harris
Designation : Higgins Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
Emily Riehl
Designation : Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University

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