Lecture Materials for Week 4
September 15, 2025
Introduction to Probability
Slides for lecture
Resources
Click here to access the paper by Shu and colleagues (2017) that made use of the data we explored in this week’s lecture.
Click here to access Bayes Rules! by Drs. Alicia A. Johnson, Miles Q. Ott, Mine Dogucu that presents the fake news example that we considered in this lecture.
Probability distributions
Slides for lecture
Resources
- Here’s a link to the Kaggle Olymipics data from the slide deck.
Extra practice (optional)
- This activity offers extra practice with contingency tables and Bayes Theorem.
- Please check out this webR tutorial for additional practice with probability distributions (i.e, practicing with pnorm() and qnorm()):