Academic Catalog

DI591 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR DATA INFORMATICS

Course Code: 9110591
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Data Informatics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course provides students with the probability and the statistics knowledge that are extensively used in the data science field. The topics include basic concepts of probability, discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, expected values, multiple random variables, independence, joint/marginal/conditional probability distributions, functions of random variables, random vectors and processes, estimation theory, descriptive statistics as well as statistical inference and hypothesis testing.