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Probability is a way of expressing the likelihood of a particular event occurring, and we discuss discrete random variables; probability distributions such as the binomial and normal distributions; variance and standard deviation; confidence intervals; tests of significance; the central limit theorem; and Bayesian statistics.
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O’Regan, G. (2023). Introduction to Probability Theory. In: Mathematical Foundations of Software Engineering. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26212-8_23
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