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Probability and Statistics

The largest maths section — and the one our data-science statistics titles were written for.

Full syllabus — Section 1

  • Counting (permutations and combinations); probability axioms; sample space, events, independent events, mutually exclusive events; marginal, conditional and joint probability; Bayes theorem
  • Conditional expectation and variance; mean, median, mode and standard deviation; correlation and covariance
  • Random variables; discrete random variables and probability mass functions — uniform, Bernoulli, binomial; continuous random variables and probability distribution functions — uniform, exponential, Poisson, normal, standard normal, t-distribution, chi-squared
  • Cumulative distribution function; conditional PDF; central limit theorem; confidence interval; z-test, t-test, chi-squared test