CTU-MATH317.AU1

Probability, Statistics, and Uncertainty Modeling

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  • 5 Interactive Lessons and 49 topics mapped to the official exam objectives

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5Interactive Lessons
49Topics
20LiveLab
80Flashcards
80Glossary of terms

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Lessons

5 Interactive Lessons · 49 topics
01 Modeling Uncertainty with Probability Distributions 8 topics · 3 LiveLab
  • Representing Data
  • Summarizing and Visualizing Data
  • The Basics of Probability and Probability Distributions
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Basic Problems in Machine Learning
  • Sample Spaces and Events
  • The Counting Approach to Probabilities
  • Set-Wise View of Events

3 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

02 Probabilistic Reasoning with Bayes’ Theorem 7 topics · 3 LiveLab
  • Conditional Probabilities and Independence
  • The Bayes Rule
  • The Basics of Probability Distributions
  • Distribution Independence and Conditionals
  • Summarizing Distributions
  • Compound Distributions
  • Functions of Random Variables (*)

3 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

03 Parameter Estimation with Maximum Likelihood 7 topics · 2 LiveLab
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Reconstructing Common Distributions from Data
  • Mixture of Distributions: The EM Algorithm
  • Kernel Density Estimation
  • Reducing Reconstruction Variance
  • The Bias-Variance Trade-Off
  • Popular Distributions Used as Conjugate Priors (*)

2 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

04 Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing 11 topics · 5 LiveLab
  • The Basics of Regression
  • Two Perspectives on Linear Regression
  • Solutions to Linear Regression
  • Handling Categorical Predictors
  • Overfitting and Regularization
  • A Probabilistic View of Regularization
  • Evaluating Linear Regression
  • Nonlinear Regression
  • Generative Probabilistic Models
  • Loss-Based Formulations: A Probabilistic View
  • Beyond Classification: Ordered Logit Model

5 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

05 Advanced Applications of Bayes’ Theorem 16 topics · 7 LiveLab
  • The Central Limit Theorem
  • Sampling Distribution and Standard Error
  • The Basics of Hypothesis Testing
  • Hypothesis Tests For Differences in Means
  • χ2-Hypothesis Tests
  • Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
  • Machine Learning Applications of Hypothesis Testing
  • Markov Chains
  • Machine Learning Applications of Markov Chains
  • Markov Chains to Generative Models
  • Hidden Markov Models
  • Applications of Hidden Markov Models
  • Jensen’s Inequality
  • Markov and Chebyshev Inequalities
  • Approximations for Sums of Random Variables
  • Tail Inequalities Versus Approximation Estimates

7 LiveLab in this lesson — see the labs panel →

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  • Preparing Data for Regression and Visualization
  • Performing Hypothesis Testing
  • Modeling Sensor Noise in Robotics
  • Implementing the Bayes Classifier
  • Training a Naïve Bayes Model
  • Creating a Naïve Bayes Spam Classifier
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