Probability Adventures
Probability Adventures is a text designed for a one-semester course in probability for students who have taken a one-semester course in Linear Algebra at the college level. To spice things up, the book is written in the style of a book from a role playing system such as Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder.
Instead of basing the probability axioms on set theory, here probability is treated as a function mapping logical statements to values in [0, 1] that indicate the chance that a statement is true. This method is fully axiomatic, simply based on logic rather than set theory. This approach not only assists in understanding what probability is all about, it easily incorporates the set theoretic approach once the reader is ready.
Open Access
The book is free to download, print, and use.
Probability Adventures (Version 2023-07-21)
Mark Huber
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Probability Adventures
Mark Huber
ISBN-13: 979-8525060036
Probability: Lectures and Labs
Probability: Lectures and Labs is a text designed for a one-semester course in probability for students who have taken a one-semester course in Linear Algebra at the college level. The course is designed to be partially flipped, in the sense that it is designed to be about two-thirds lectures, and one-third laboratory experiments done using the open source language R.
The book is self-contained, but moves rapidly through subjects such as set notation, assuming that the student has already seen it before.
Why another probability book?
I teach most of the probability and statistics courses at Claremont McKenna College, and what I found in my teaching is there is a large disconnect between what probability courses cover and what statistics and advanced probability courses actually need. In this modern world, more students will be trying their hand at data science and very few will need to calculate the probability of a full house. This book is the result.
Open Access
The book is free to download, print, and use.
Probability: Lectures and Labs (Version 2023-07-06)
Mark Huber
Printed Version
You may also purchase the printed version through Amazon.
Probability: Lectures and Labs
Mark Huber
ISBN-13: 979-8674518877