Statistics 110: Probability (Harvard Univ.). Taught by Professor Joe Blitzstein, this course is an introduction to probability as a language and
set of tools for understanding statistics, science, risk, and randomness. The ideas and methods are useful in statistics, science, engineering, economics,
finance, and everyday life. Topics include the following. Basics: sample spaces and events, conditioning, Bayes' Theorem. Random variables and their distributions:
distributions, moment generating functions, expectation, variance, covariance, correlation, conditional expectation. Univariate distributions: Normal, t, Binomial,
Negative Binomial, Poisson, Beta, Gamma. Multivariate distributions: joint, conditional, and marginal distributions, independence, transformations, Multinomial,
Multivariate Normal. Limit theorems: law of large numbers, central limit theorem. Markov chains: transition probabilities, stationary distributions, reversibility,
convergence.
Lecture 21 - Covariance and Correlation
This lecture introduces covariance and correlation, and shows how to obtain the variance of a sum, including the variance of a Hypergeometric random variable.