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About the Course

This course will provide you with a basic, intuitive and practical introduction into Probability Theory. You will be able to learn how to apply Probability Theory in different scenarios and you will earn a "toolbox" of methods to deal with uncertainty in your daily life. The course is split in 5 modules. In each module you will first have an easy introduction into the topic, which will serve as a basis to further develop your knowledge about the topic and acquire the "tools" to deal with uncertainty. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to complete 5 exercise sessions to reflect about the content learned in each module and start applying your earned knowledge right away. The topics covered are: "Probability", "Conditional Probability", "Applications", "Random Variables", and "Normal Distribution". You will see how the modules are taught in a lively way, focusing on having an entertaining and useful learning experience! We are looking forward to see you online!...

Top reviews

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.

NS

Sep 16, 2017

Superb course. I am very impressed with the way the faculty explained real world examples through the probability concepts. I wish we can have more courses from him on statistics and machine learning.

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By Joshua W

Oct 22, 2022

This course isn't very good. It successfully introduced me to bayesian statistics, but the questions and concepts are in fact not intuitive. I plan to take a different statistics course that is composed better.

By Marcos M

Sep 1, 2017

The questions were too easy. Always just two questions. It's too much of watching the teacher talk, video edition could be used more. Some graphs and animations to "see" the concepts would be wellcome.

By Abhipsa M

Mar 31, 2020

For an introduction, it is fine. But could have been way deeper. I could not learn how to tackle difficult and tricky probability problems.

By Jan P

Dec 16, 2018

The in-class quizzes are not relevant and exercises uninteresting. Otherwise interestingly conducted and helpful course.

By Kenta A

Dec 6, 2021

Overall solid, for beginners. Could be a tad more interactive.

By Yogesh S D 5 I B E

Apr 26, 2018

The course was basic. Exercises were way too easy.

By Deleted A

Feb 28, 2017

Funny and Intuitive explanations.

By Thuan A B

Mar 1, 2019

Not that challenging

By fatima h

Nov 29, 2024

it was amazing

By Bhavya S

Oct 29, 2017

It started out very well, but towards the end there was inadequate intuition provided. For instance, the binomial and normal distribution done directly through functions in excel stripped away the intuition. There was a missing base to these. Overall, the examples picked out were very interesting and would capture my attention.

By K R P

Dec 2, 2024

No feedback. Quizzes don’t show answers and there’s no feedback so you end up guessing in order to figure out what he’s talking about. Waste of time.

By Nils A

Jun 3, 2018

Extremely distracting accent and voice, can't focus at all on what is being said

By Ahmed M Y O

Nov 21, 2017

very basic

By Riccardo D C

Mar 3, 2019

The multiple choice questions in the quizzes, with their slippery, quite similar yet tricky possible answers, makes the course absolutely distracting.

By Michael J

Dec 27, 2020

Worst experience on coursera so far. Parts of the course were locked for weeks for some unknown reasons. No progress possible.

By Umang B

Oct 18, 2023

Course is not accessible :(

By DONG Q

Jul 12, 2018

too simple

By Takumi M

Jul 5, 2022

Too basic