Probability

These resources are designed to help you with probability topics.

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Equally likely outcomes

  
Introduction to probability language and equally likely outcomesHELM booklet

Set notation and Venn diagrams

  
IntroductionHELM booklet
Mutually exclusive and independent events (on Venn diagrams)

Mutually exclusive or independent events

  
Mutually Exclusive and independent eventsHELM booklet

Tree diagrams

  
Introduction
Conditional probability (using tree diagrams)

Conditional probability

  
Conditional Probability (using formulae) 

Random variables

  
Introduction to random variables 
Combining random variablesHELM booklet

Discrete probability distributions

  
Introduction to discrete probability distributionsHELM booklet
Binomial distribution

HELM booklet: Binomial distribution

HELM booklet: Approximating to normal

Hypergeometric distributionHELM booklet
Poisson distributionHELM booklet

Continuous probability distributions

  
Introduction to continuous probability distributionsHELM booklet
Continuous uniform distributionHELM booklet
Exponential distributionHELM booklet
Normal distributionHELM booklet
Chi-squared distribution

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