STAT 1200

This introductory course in probability includes topics such as: the nature of chance and randomness, philosophy and history of efforts to quantify uncertainty, elementary probability including conditional probability, combinatorics, empirical probability, games of chance, probability paradoxes, probability distributions, simulation, and perceptions of probability by biological organisms. Probability is treated both as a key mathematical discipline and as foundational for further studies in statistics and data science. [Restriction(s): This is a Priority Access Course. Enrolment may be restricted to the BMath program during certain periods.][Department(s): Department of Mathematics and Statistics]