This course will provide you with a basic, intuitive and practical introduction into Probability Theory. You will be able to learn how to apply Probability Theory in different scenarios and you will earn a "toolbox" of methods to deal with uncertainty in your daily life.
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Approx. 30 hours to complete
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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish, Persian
Skills you will gain
Bayes' TheoremNormal DistributionProbabilityConditional Probability
Learner Career Outcomes
18%
started a new career after completing these courses
17%
got a tangible career benefit from this course
Flexible deadlines
Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
Shareable Certificate
Earn a Certificate upon completion
100% online
Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
Beginner Level
Approx. 30 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish, Persian
Offered by
University of Zurich
Founded in 1833, the University of Zurich (UZH) is Switzerland’s largest university, with a current enrollment of over 26,000 students. Made up of seven faculties covering approximately 100 different subject areas, UZH is proud to offer the most comprehensive academic program in the country.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
7 hours to complete
Probability
In this module we will learn about probabilities and perform our first calculations using probability formulas. We want to get comfortable with the idea that probabilities describe the chance of uncertain events occurring.
7 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 63 min), 1 reading, 7 quizzes
6 hours to complete
Conditional Probability
The arrival of new information may lead us to alter our probabilistic assessments of uncertain events. In this module, we will learn how the concept of "conditional" probabilities allows us to make these changes correctly. Script of the course can be found here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/introductiontoprobability/resources/qxi9W
6 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 54 min), 1 reading, 6 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Application
We will discuss some fascinating every-day applications of probability. In addition to entertaining examples, we will also review very serious applications from finance and law.
4 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 80 min)
7 hours to complete
Discrete Random Variables
In this module we move beyond probabilities and learn about important summary measures such as expected values, variances, and standard deviations. We also learn about the most popular discrete probability distribution, the binomial distribution.
7 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 80 min), 1 reading, 8 quizzes
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM AN INTUITIVE INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY
by NSSep 16, 2017
Superb course. I am very impressed with the way the faculty explained real world examples through the probability concepts. I wish we can have more courses from him on statistics and machine learning.
by FRMay 20, 2020
I really enjoyed this course. The explanations are clear and, as suggested by the title, the lecturer uses intuition and daily-life examples rather than abstract and formal definitions and notations.
by MIAug 9, 2020
This course has made me fall in love with probability. Highly recommended for anyone who dislikes probability. You will end up loving probability later. Great instructor and quality lecture material.
by PPApr 14, 2018
This COURSE is quite interesting to learn many new thing which has explained very interestingly by karl but add more on this as many topics are missing in this course and teach more on excel part
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