Random – Probability, mathematical statistics, and stochastic processes (2015)
Before this becomes one of the many ignored bookmarks in my Favorites folder, can anyone tell me how useful this resource is to a self-ascribed mathematical lightweight as myself?I took calc BC back in high school and now I'm 31. I realize to a certain extent that many things I believe today are based on a rudimentary understanding of probability theory. Aren't all clinical trials, scientific studies, etc, validated by that 95% confidence interval? And I notice that whenever something happens and my human nature wants draw a conclusion of causality, that cold, rational part of my brain tells me to wait until I have more data.Anyway I'd love to get into what I feel might be the most fundamental mathematical concept. Probability theory might be our modern day religion.