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Chapter 5: Probability
 
Video Clips
 
This video discusses key points of probability (9:44).
 
This video includes discussion of key points of probability distributions (9:33).
 
This video describes binomial probability and provides an example of how to compute binomial probabilities, and the mean and standard deviation of binomial distributions (6:25).
 
Audio Clips
 
NPR discusses meaningless statistics in sports (3:58).
 
Professor Andrew Gelman discusses how people misunderstand probability when it comes to the coin toss (4:17).
 
Lecture on statistics and probability (15:41).
 
Web Resources
 
Series of videos that describe independent and dependent events in regards to probability. Provides numerous examples to illustrate the points.
 
This article describes the rules of probability, example problems with answers and explanations, and probability calculator.
 
Concise description of Bayes’s theorem.
 
This simulation illustrates the link between the number of trials and expected outcome of probability distributions.