SI
Apr 26, 2022
Wow. What an amazing journey. Engaging, exciting, and as far from broring as it is possible while providing actual knowledge. Perfect balance. The only downside of this course is that is it too short.
SP
Mar 22, 2023
It's a great course, loved the way Prof. Karl Schmedders explains things. However one area of improvement of this course is - the methods adopted in the exercises needed to be covered in the lectures.
By Radka P
•Apr 29, 2020
It's very good course on introduction to probability. The lectures were taught very clear and comprehensibly. To finish this course you must complete all quizzes on 100 %, and sometimes it can be very tricky. For better understanding I would appreciate, if there were more exercises that I have solve myself. Although I think the quizzes following the Jose's lectures were unnecessarily easy, because the questions and answers in the quizzes were the same as were taught in the lectures.
By Xi W
•Feb 14, 2021
I very nice course overall. I would recommend it to others. I few minor things that didn't give it a five stars. First, there are some minor errors in the videos that haven't. been fixed over the years. Second, the instructor and the TA are not available in the discussion forum. The instructor for the Calculus course on Coursera was very interactive in the discussion forum.
Again, I still think it's a great course and thank you very much for providing it.
By Hosein N
•Mar 17, 2021
In comparison to other similar courses available at coursera and in terms of the course design and structure, content and the extent to which the topic of Stats and Probability at intro level is covered this course also covers it quite well, but more explanations on wk 5 content was needed as there seems to be a sense of rush to roundup and finish the course at the end. All in all, great for kickstarters!
By Amrendra P S
•May 17, 2020
This course will give you an introduction to probability instead of deep knowledge or concepts. For beginners, this course is better but if you had done any course in probability then this will not be much beneficial for you. Course content if prepared and structured well, examples give you the real-life implementation but assignments are very easy and don does not cover the entire portion of the course.
By L H
•May 13, 2020
Professor Schmedders is very passionate about the subject, and his passion is evident through the lessons. I especially enjoyed learning about the real world applications of probability. My only grouse is that Professor Schmedders did not go into greater depth about the various topics. Hopefully there will be a second part to this course that explores the topics in greater depth with more mathematics!
By Zion J Y T R
•Jan 28, 2024
It was very Good Introduction I loved every lecture the professor was really nice in teaching and the exercises was really cool and fun to answer, I have a lil issue is that the theory from the other lectures was not fully utilized like the conditional probability I would have liked them to coordinated that with something like the normal distribution but over all It was a great experience.
By Sam M
•Oct 12, 2023
"An Intuitive Introduction to Probability" helped me to build a strong starting point with probability which I am then going to use later on when I have to cover probability in A-Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics. I would recommend to anyone interested in maths, whether they are a fan of probability/statistics, new to the subject or even if you dislike it.
By Vladimir L
•Aug 21, 2017
Down to earth explanation of probability basics, explanations are clear and mostly intuitively understandable. Great examples of Excel use for different probability tasks resolution. However use of Normal distribution Excel functionality is not needed when explaining 5 coins toss. It is more intuitive to show it using combination formula.
By Daniel S
•Mar 8, 2022
I enjoyed this introduction to probability, especially using excel for problems in the last few lectures. It was a little harder to understnad what the TA exercises were at the end of some lectures. I think a little more time and explanation in those exercises would have been helpful. Good overall!
By bx2
•Oct 15, 2022
I really liked prof. Schmedders and the idea of building the intuition for probability in general. I do think that the "final" excercises were a bit too easy. Perhaps not filling them up for students would be a better way to retain what they learned. I know that for me that would be the case :)
By Max G
•Jan 26, 2019
An interesting course in probablity and statistics. In some cases the equations given are not explained clearly enough. I would have preferred a demonstration of how the equations were actually derived, but perhaps that was beyond the scope of this course.
By Ibrahim N
•Jan 13, 2018
A very good course, especially if you are interested in the applications of probability theory. The title fulfills itself and this course is kind of an alternative approach to the very popular problem: how to understand probability theory in a better way.
By Antonio P
•Aug 30, 2019
Excellent teaching of a well designed introductory course about probability. I’ve appreciated how much can be taught while keeping tough maths out of sight. I’ve also appreciated the connection between theory and non-scholastic, real life applications.
By Nithin B
•Sep 25, 2020
From a quick introduction to real-world examples where probability is used gave an overview on the topic of probability. Sharing the raw data and generate a summary in excel or libre office calc would be a good thing to get hands-on experience.
By Tengfei H
•May 6, 2017
The course is very interesting. It has taught me a lot about basic ideas/definitions/applications of probability. But the difficulties of the exercises may be raised a little bit to bring a little bit more challenge to this course.
By Rasha A A M
•Oct 18, 2020
Thank you very much for this wonderful course mixed with great effort and sincerity by those in charge of it . This course is a great blend of theory and practice with a very interesting presentation of every day life applications.
By Jennifer G
•May 3, 2020
I enjoyed taking this course. It was fairly intuitive as it was billed. I had a little difficulty downloading some of the reading materials but the information provided in the videos was sufficient to take the quizzes.
By aineko
•Feb 22, 2018
Good and remarkably easy introduction to probability theory. The chosen real world applications really helped me to understand the subject better. Might have to recap some lessons to really grasp the subject.
By shailaja s
•Mar 5, 2022
Excellent course. Makes maths interesting. I understood the bell curve which i did not understand in school and lost marks because i did not attempt that question . i feel better now having done this course.
By Jawad
•Aug 14, 2021
The passion of the instructor was great and motivating to learn this course.
There were some errors in the transcript. It would have been great if the instructor prepared a pdf format of each lecture note.
By Mayank J
•Jun 15, 2017
As written in course introduction this course covers basics of Probability. Instructor is good and explains everything from scratch. Would recommend this course for someone who want to learn about basics.
By Prashant
•Apr 15, 2018
This COURSE is quite interesting to learn many new thing which has explained very interestingly by karl
but add more on this as many topics are missing in this course and teach more on excel part
By KUNTAL K G
•Jul 8, 2024
I expected more of advanced Mathematics in this course which was not available. Overall, it was an excellent course clearly citing many applications of Probability Analysis.
By Joaquin A M
•Nov 13, 2022
Gran curso, muy didáctico, amigable, al comienzo resulta un poco abstracto pero con ir practicando y resolviendo los ejercicios se hace muy agradable y comprensible. Gracias
By Shriya S
•Jun 5, 2020
This course was pretty amazing! I learnt so I much about how to calculate probability, and Professor Karl gave many examples too, which made me understand the concepts well.