ST111 - Probability (Part A)

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

This course aims to introduce the concept of probability as quantified uncertainty, to give a critique of the frequentist interpretation of probability and to provide the basic knowledge necessary to pursue further study in probability and statistics.

Principal learning outcomes

By the end of the course students should be able to: understand the concept of probability as a measure of uncertainty, and how considerations of symmetry enable simple classical problems to be solved; understand and be able to apply, in simple settings, basic results such as the addition law and Bayes Theorem; understand and be able to check and apply, in simple settings, the concept of independence of events; understand Means and Variances of discrete random variables.