Elevate your data analysis skills with our comprehensive Probability and Statistics course, tailored for professionals seeking real-world applications. Ideal for aspiring data analysts, engineers, scientists, and anyone looking to enhance their decision-making abilities, this course is your gateway to mastering essential statistical concepts. Dive deep into data sets, Chebyshev’s inequality, descriptive statistics, probability axioms, and Bayes’ formula. Gain expertise in random variables, mathematical expectations, various distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis.

Probability and Statistics

Probability and Statistics
This course is part of Mathematics for Engineering Specialization

Instructor: BITS Pilani Instructors Group
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Beginner level
No prior experience required.
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Recommended experience
Beginner level
No prior experience required.
What you'll learn
Evaluate and interpret complex data sets with probabilistic models, applying Bayes’ theorem and Chebyshev’s inequality to solve real-world problems.
Design hypothesis tests, including t-tests, z-tests, and chi-square tests, to validate data-driven hypotheses in various professional contexts.
Construct and optimise predictive models using multiple and nonlinear regression techniques to forecast outcomes and improve decision-making.
Synthesise probability and statistical knowledge to develop innovative solutions for complex analytical challenges.
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There are 9 modules in this course
In this module, you will be introduced to statistics and descriptive statistics. You will learn about various visualizations to understand the data. You will understand various measures of central tendency and measures of variability to analyze the given data for more insights.
What's included
9 videos4 readings7 assignments
9 videos• Total 65 minutes
- About Probability and Statistics• 4 minutes
- Fundamentals of Statistics• 6 minutes
- Data Visualization Using Frequency Tables• 9 minutes
- Histogram, Ogives, Stem and Leaf Plots • 7 minutes
- Measures of Central Tendency• 8 minutes
- Measures of Variability• 7 minutes
- Chebyshev’s Inequality • 9 minutes
- Normal Data Set and Skewness of Data• 7 minutes
- Two Quantitative Variables on Scatter Plot • 8 minutes
4 readings• Total 40 minutes
- Course Overview• 10 minutes
- Course Structure & Critical Information• 10 minutes
- Descriptive Data Sets and Summarising Data Sets• 10 minutes
- Understanding the Data• 10 minutes
7 assignments• Total 48 minutes
- Test Yourself: Fundamentals of Statistics• 30 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Data Visualisation Using Frequency Tables• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Histogram, Ogives, Stem and Leaf Plots • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Measures of Variability• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Chebyshev’s Inequality • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Normal Data Set and Skewness of Data• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Two Quantitative Variables on Scatter Plot • 3 minutes
In this module, you will be introduced to the basics of set theory and probability. You will learn about the axioms of probability and conditional probability. You will understand the difference between dependent and independent events. You will also explore one of the important concepts in data science (machine learning), i.e., Bayes’ formula.
What's included
13 videos3 readings14 assignments
13 videos• Total 88 minutes
- Basics of Probability• 9 minutes
- Basics of Set Theory• 6 minutes
- Axioms of Probability• 7 minutes
- Probabilities of Equally Likely Outcomes• 5 minutes
- Principle of Counting• 6 minutes
- Principle of Counting: Example 1• 8 minutes
- Principle of Counting: Example 2 • 7 minutes
- Conditional Probability • 6 minutes
- Conditional Probability: Example• 6 minutes
- Bayes’ Formula• 8 minutes
- Bayes’ Formula: Examples• 7 minutes
- Independent or Dependent Events• 6 minutes
- Independent or Dependent Events: Example • 6 minutes
3 readings• Total 30 minutes
- Basics of Probability• 10 minutes
- Axioms of Probability and Sample Spaces Having Equally Likely Outcomes • 10 minutes
- Bayes' Formula• 10 minutes
14 assignments• Total 54 minutes
- Test Yourself: Elements of Probability• 15 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Basics of Probability• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Basics of Set Theory• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Axioms of Probability• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Probabilities of Equally Likely Outcomes • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Principle of Counting• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Principle of Counting - Example 1• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Principle of Counting - Example 2• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Conditional Probability• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Example of Conditional Probability• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Bayes’ Formula• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Bayes’ Formula: Examples • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Independent or Dependent Events• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Independent or Dependent Events: Example • 3 minutes
In this module, you will learn how to generalize the events and their outcomes by a variable, that is, a random variable. You will explore types of random variables. You will gain an understanding of a mathematical expectation. You will further learn about the procedure to find the mean and variance using mathematical expectation. This module also covers the probability distribution function.
What's included
14 videos3 readings14 assignments
14 videos• Total 95 minutes
- Random Variable: Definition • 6 minutes
- Random Variable: Examples • 6 minutes
- Random Variable: Types• 7 minutes
- Probability Distribution Function • 7 minutes
- Probability Distribution Function: Examples• 7 minutes
- Mean of a Discrete Random Variable• 5 minutes
- Variance and Standard Deviation of Discrete Random Variable • 7 minutes
- Mean and Variance: Example 1• 7 minutes
- Mean and Variance: Example 2• 6 minutes
- Mean and Variance: Example 3• 8 minutes
- Probability Density Function • 7 minutes
- Probability Density Function: Examples• 8 minutes
- Mean and Standard Deviation of a Continuous Random Variable• 7 minutes
- Continuous Random Variables: Examples• 6 minutes
3 readings• Total 30 minutes
- Random Variable• 10 minutes
- Discrete Random Variables • 10 minutes
- Continuous Random Variables • 10 minutes
14 assignments• Total 42 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Random Variable: Definition • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Random Variable: Examples • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Random Variable: Types • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Probability Distribution Function • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Probability Distribution Function: Examples• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Mean of a Discrete Random Variable• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Variance and Standard Deviation of Discrete Random Variable • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Mean and Variance: Example 1• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Mean and Variance: Example 2• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Mean and Variance: Example 3• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Probability Density Function • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Probability Density Function: Examples• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Mean and Standard Deviation of a Continuous Random Variable• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Continuous Random Variables: Examples• 3 minutes
In this module, you will learn about various discrete probability distributions. You will be able to understand Binomial and probability distributions with their corresponding probability distribution functions. You will also learn about the mean and variance of Binomial and Poisson distributions.
What's included
13 videos2 readings14 assignments
13 videos• Total 95 minutes
- Binomial Distribution: Definition• 8 minutes
- Binomial Distribution: Properties • 7 minutes
- Mean of Binomial Distribution• 4 minutes
- Variance of Binomial Distribution• 7 minutes
- Recurrence Relation• 9 minutes
- Binomial Distribution: Example 1• 5 minutes
- Binomial Distribution: Example 2• 8 minutes
- Poisson Distribution: Definition• 8 minutes
- Poisson Distribution: Properties• 8 minutes
- Mean of Poisson Distribution• 8 minutes
- Variance of Poisson Distribution• 9 minutes
- Recurrence Relation• 8 minutes
- Relation Between Binomial and Poisson Distributions • 8 minutes
2 readings• Total 20 minutes
- Binomial Distribution • 10 minutes
- Poisson Distribution • 10 minutes
14 assignments• Total 69 minutes
- Test Yourself: Random Variables and Discrete Probability Distributions• 30 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Binomial Distribution: Definition• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Binomial Distribution: Properties • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Mean of Binomial Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Variance of Binomial Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Recurrence Relation• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Example of Binomial Distribution (1)• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Example of Binomial Distribution (2)• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Poisson Distribution: Definition• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Poisson Distribution: Properties• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Mean of Poisson Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Variance of Poisson Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Recurrence Relation• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Relation Between Binomial and Poisson Distributions • 3 minutes
In this module, you will learn continuous probability distributions in general and normal/Gaussian distribution in particular. You will gain an understanding of the mean and variance of normal distribution. You will also explore the standard normal distribution with the help of normal distribution tables. Furthermore, you will be introduced to other continuous distributions like uniform distribution and Gamma distribution.
What's included
14 videos3 readings14 assignments
14 videos• Total 105 minutes
- Probability Density Function • 8 minutes
- Normal Distribution • 8 minutes
- Standard Normal Distribution and Normal Curve• 7 minutes
- Normal Distribution Table• 8 minutes
- Normal Distribution: Example 1• 9 minutes
- Normal Distribution: Example 2• 8 minutes
- Normal Distribution: Example 3• 8 minutes
- Mean of Normal Distribution• 6 minutes
- Variance of Normal Distribution• 7 minutes
- Gaussian Mixtures• 6 minutes
- Uniform Distribution• 7 minutes
- Gamma Distribution• 8 minutes
- Exponential Distribution• 9 minutes
- Beta Distribution• 7 minutes
3 readings• Total 30 minutes
- Normal Distribution • 10 minutes
- Properties of Normal Distribution• 10 minutes
- Other Continuous Distributions • 10 minutes
14 assignments• Total 42 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Probability Density Function • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Normal Distribution • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Standard Normal Distribution and Normal Curve• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Normal Distribution Table• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Normal Distribution: Example 1• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Normal Distribution: Example 2• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Normal Distribution: Example 3 • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Mean of Normal Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Variance of Normal Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Gaussian Mixtures• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Uniform Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Gamma Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Exponential Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Beta Distribution• 3 minutes
In this module, you will learn the importance of sampling and various sampling techniques. You will be introduced to sampling distribution, which plays an important role in understanding data. You will learn about the central limit theorem that will help you understand the use of normal distribution in many situations. Then, you will be introduced to the next step in sampling, that is, estimation. You will also gain an understanding of the t- and chi-square distribution.
What's included
15 videos2 readings16 assignments
15 videos• Total 101 minutes
- Introduction to Sampling • 7 minutes
- Populations and Samples• 7 minutes
- Types of Sampling• 6 minutes
- Sampling Distribution • 6 minutes
- Central Limit Theorem• 10 minutes
- Sampling Distribution: t-Distribution• 7 minutes
- Sampling Distribution: Chi-Square Distribution• 4 minutes
- Sampling Distribution: F Distribution• 7 minutes
- Estimation• 7 minutes
- Point Estimation• 7 minutes
- Interval Estimation: Mean • 8 minutes
- Interval Estimation: Proportion • 8 minutes
- Interval Estimation: Example 1• 7 minutes
- Interval Estimation: Example 2• 4 minutes
- Interval Estimation: Example 3• 5 minutes
2 readings• Total 20 minutes
- Sampling • 10 minutes
- Estimation• 10 minutes
16 assignments• Total 75 minutes
- Continuous Probability Distributions, Sampling and Estimation• 30 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Sampling • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Populations and Samples• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Types of Sampling• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Sampling Distribution • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Central Limit Theorem• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Sampling Distribution: t-Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Sampling Distribution: Chi-Square Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Sampling Distribution: F Distribution• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Estimation• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Point Estimation• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Interval Estimation: Mean • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Interval Estimation: Proportion • 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Interval Estimation Example 1• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Interval Estimation Example 2• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Interval Estimation - Example 3• 3 minutes
In this module, you will learn to identify and validate hypotheses using various statistical techniques, including sampling. You'll cover forming hypotheses, type I and type II errors, and their impact on test significance and power. The module also explores hypothesis testing with proportions, handling both large and small samples, and validating multiple proportions using the chi-square test.
What's included
27 videos5 readings20 assignments
27 videos• Total 179 minutes
- Introduction to Testing of Hypothesis • 7 minutes
- Formulating Null and Alternate Hypothesis• 8 minutes
- Type I and Type II Errors• 9 minutes
- Level of Significance • 6 minutes
- Examples of Testing of Hypotheses• 8 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: One Mean—Large Sample• 8 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: One Mean—Small Sample• 6 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Two Means—Large Sample• 8 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Two Means—Small Sample• 4 minutes
- One Mean—Large Sample: Example 1• 7 minutes
- One Mean—Small Sample: Example 2 • 10 minutes
- Two Means—Large Sample: Example 3• 5 minutes
- Two Means—Small Sample: Example 4• 6 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis by Proportion• 4 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: One Proportion—Large Sample• 6 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis Related to Population• 8 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Two proportions—Large Sample• 5 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Example 2• 6 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Several Proportions• 4 minutes
- Chi-Square Test• 6 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Several Proportions - Example 1• 8 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Several Proportions—Example 2• 7 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Several Proportions—Example 3• 6 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: A Summary• 8 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Example 4• 6 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Example 5• 7 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Example 6• 5 minutes
5 readings• Total 50 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis• 10 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis Involving Mean• 10 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Examples• 10 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis - Proportion• 10 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis: Several Proportions• 10 minutes
20 assignments• Total 174 minutes
- Testing of Hypothesis• 30 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Testing of Hypothesis - 1• 9 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Type I and Type II Errors• 12 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Level of Significance • 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Testing of Hypothesis - 2• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: One Mean - Large Sample• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: One Mean - Small Sample• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Two Means - Large Sample• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Two Means - Small Sample• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: One Mean—Large Sample Example 1• 12 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: One Mean—Small Sample Example 2 • 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Two Means—Large Sample Example 3• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Two Means—Small Sample Example 4• 15 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Testing of Hypothesis - Proportion 1• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: One Proportion• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Two Proportions• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Testing of Hypothesis - Proportion 2• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Several Proportions - 1• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Chi-Square Test• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Several Proportions - 2• 15 minutes
In this module, you will learn how to understand the relation between two variables in the given data and the types of correlation that exists between two variables. You will be able to find coefficient correlation to establish this. The module answers why it is important to use the given data for future prediction for which regression is helpful. This module will also help you understand simple linear regression with the help of normal equations and their matrix form.
What's included
12 videos2 readings8 assignments
12 videos• Total 74 minutes
- Correlation• 3 minutes
- Covariance • 6 minutes
- Example of Covariance• 6 minutes
- Types of Correlation• 8 minutes
- Coefficient of Correlation• 10 minutes
- Example of Coefficient of Correlation• 6 minutes
- Simple Linear Regression• 4 minutes
- Simple Linear Regression: Sum of Squared Errors• 8 minutes
- Normal Equations• 7 minutes
- Matrix Form• 5 minutes
- Simple Linear Regression: Example 1• 5 minutes
- Simple Linear Regression: Example 2• 6 minutes
2 readings• Total 20 minutes
- Correlation• 10 minutes
- Simple Linear Regression• 10 minutes
8 assignments• Total 78 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Correlation and Covariance• 15 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Types of Correlation• 12 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Coefficient of Correlation• 15 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Simple Linear Regression• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Sum of Squared Errors• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Normal Equations• 6 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Matrix Form• 3 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Simple Linear Regression Examples• 15 minutes
In this module, you will learn how to predict when nonlinearity exists in the data. With the learnings from simple linear regression, you will understand the regression for prediction when nonlinearity exists in the data. Furthermore, in nonlinear regression, you will focus on polynomial regression.
What's included
9 videos2 readings4 assignments
9 videos• Total 47 minutes
- Multiple Linear Regression• 2 minutes
- Multiple Linear Regression with Two Independent Variables• 7 minutes
- Multiple Linear Regression with More Than Two Independent Variables• 8 minutes
- Nonlinear Regression: Part I• 6 minutes
- Nonlinear Regression: Part II• 7 minutes
- Polynomial Regression• 6 minutes
- Example of Nonlinear Regression• 5 minutes
- Example of Polynomial Regression• 4 minutes
- Course Summary• 3 minutes
2 readings• Total 15 minutes
- Additional Recommended Reading: Multiple Linear Regression and Nonlinear Regression• 5 minutes
- Congratulations and Next Steps• 10 minutes
4 assignments• Total 54 minutes
- Correlation and Regression• 30 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Multiple Linear Regression• 9 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Nonlinear and Polynomial Regression• 9 minutes
- Check Your Understanding: Examples of Nonlinear Regression• 6 minutes
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