18.05 -- Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Course Description: Elementary introduction with applications. Basic probability models. Combinatorics. Random variables. Discrete and continuous probability distributions. Statistical estimation and testing. Confidence intervals. Introduction to linear regression.

This class is at the Undergraduate level
Course Website: http://math.mit.edu/~pak/courses/1805.htm
Instructor: D. Gutfreund
Prerequisites: 18.01

Insider's Wisdom

This course is given by the math department, but is meant to serve undergraduate students from most departments. It is designed to be an introductory course in Probability and Statistics. Some familiarity with Calculus is assumed (18.01 is a prerequisite). It is a rather small class; a typical enrollment is about 25 students.

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