Dear Colleagues,

Trying to get ahead in science without speaking English? It won't work.

Trying to get ahead in science without understanding probability theory? It won't work either.

These are already two good reasons to attend my "Probability Theory" course (more info at https://training.vbcf.ac.at/training/rprob.php ). We will focus on the intuition behind probability theory rather than on a mathematically rigorous presentation.

The knowledge taught in this course is a pre-requisite to my "Think statistics!" course (https://training.vbcf.ac.at/training/rstat.php ) which will be held on the 11th and 12th February.

Topics:

- Foundations of probability theory: basic identities (sum rule, product rule). Independent variates, conditional probability.

- Discrete probability distributions: Uniform, Bernoulli, Binomial, Poisson, Negative Binomial.

- Continuouos probability distributions: Uniform, Exponential, Gamma etc.

- Central Limit Theorem. Normal and Chi-square distributions.

Out of scope: Applied data analyses.

Prerequisites: Knowledge of the 4 arithmetic operations. Basic familiarity with R is not needed but useful to understand the hands-on examples.

Date/time: Tuesday 3rd February, 09:00 - 13:00h.

Location: IMP seminar room E-016.

Cost: free of charge.

How to register: Check your calendar.  If you register but don't attend, you are taking away a place from a colleague! Ask your supervisor for permission to attend, then open this URL: https://training.vbcf.ac.at/training/schedule.php     Click on the [REGISTER] button and fill out the form. Please specify your job type (e.g. “PhD student”) correctly.

Thank you,

András