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Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data
edX
3 recommenders · 3 threads · recommended in 3 years, 2018–2022 · score 2.4
An introductory probability course from MIT (MITx 6.431x on edX, mirroring MIT OCW 6.041/6.0041) covering probability foundations and their use in analyzing data and uncertainty.
Commenters describe it as a very good, genuinely helpful preparation course for later statistics and machine learning work, with one calling it highly recommended.
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MIT 6.041[1] is a very good course I can recommend. Not sure if MITx 6.431x on edx is the same, but it's the same teacher in any case.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9WZyLZCBzs&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
Shoutout for another great online MOOC : https://www.edx.org/course/probability-the-science-of-uncert... (It is the same as MIT OCW's 6.0.41)
I did it as preparation for my Masters and it was genuinely helpful. Would recommend it to everyone looking to do a prob 201 before taking advanced-ish courses.
I found the lectures entertaining and the exercises of a much lower quality. Not enough of them, shallow and ambiguously worded.
I got something like 90% on the edx MITx probability course and was barely getting 50% for the above mentioned Stanford stat learning course for the 5 weeks of it I completed. I mention the MIT course, (which I highly recommend fwiw) only to support my view that I don't think my experience is aptitude or workload related. But as ever YMMV.