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Learn probability concepts that can be applied in your career

Professional Certificate in
Probability/Random Variables
GTx

What you will learn

  • Review Bootcamp lessons based on set theory and calculus.
  • Understand underlying probability axioms.
  • Apply elementary probability counting rules, including permutations and combinations.
  • Become familiar with the concepts of independence and conditional probability.
  • Learn how to update probabilities via Bayes Rule.
  • Get introduced to discrete and continuous random variables.
  • Learn about the properties of random variables, including the expected value, variance, and moment generating function.
  • Study functions of random variables, and how they can be used in computer simulation applications.
  • Recognize joint(two-dimensional) random variables and how to extract marginal(one-dimensional) and conditional information from them.
  • Study the concepts of independence and correlation.
  • Work with the R statistical package.
Expert instruction
2 skill-building courses
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
2 months
6 - 11 hours per week
$498
USD
For the full program experience

Courses in this program

  1. GTx's Probability/Random Variables Professional Certificate

Meet your instructor
from The Georgia Institute of Technology (GTx)

David Goldsman
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
The Georgia Institute of Technology

Experts from GTx committed to teaching online learning

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