Probabilites!


You have undoubtedly heard of probability in your day to day life, either you have played cards or board games, or perhaps you have heard of the Lottery. Yet probability is probably the most important discovery of mathematics and perhaps society has ever made. All of our understanding of the universe and science is intimately tied to this beautiful and robust theory.

Probability is also undeniably important to statistics. So far in this course we have only discussed descriptive statistics, these are great when you have all of your population's data and your population is small enough that you can actually deal with (do calculation etc). In the case that a population is too unpractical to work with then using a sample to infer results about a population would be impossible without probability!

To start our Journey learning Probability we will be considering:

Example: Rolling a fair dice, flipping a fair coin