Introduction to Probability

You may be here purely out of interest, or because you have discovered that probability is an essential ingredient to the universe you live in, or beccause you have come to understand the importance of data and statistics in virtually all of human enterprise from social planning to commerce and finance.

Or you may be enrolled in a probability course at the University of Waterloo or elsewhere, and wish to use this material to supplement what you have seen in class or in video lectures. Please remember that this page is uder development and if you have comments or spot errors in the material, please forward them to me at :

dlmcleis@uwaterloo.ca

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However you use the material, this is a subject that touches many applications. Randomness is at the heart of our universe, our evolution, and our daily lives. It is, in many ways, the very wind that put you where you are.