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This course is designed only
for undergraduate students in Business and Liberal Arts majors. It
introduces basic concepts and methods in probability. Topics include
the definition of sample spaces, events and theirs probabilities;
elementary combinatorics and counting techniques; conditional
probability, the total probability and Bayes' Theorem.
The course also discusses concepts of discrete and continuous random variables, and probability
distributions; multi-random variables and their joint distributions;
the mean, variance and covariance of random variables; the Central
Limit Theorem, "t"- and "F"-distributions.
Prerequisite: Ma 117
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