Introduction
to probability
(an online tutorial- with many fascinating demos:
part of Hyperstat
-
an online statistics tutorial (David M. Lane, Rice University, Houston,
Texas)
Virtual Laboratories
in Probability and Statistics (University of Alabama)
Interactive tools simulating probabilistic concepts and
famous problems. Includes applets on the Monty Hall problem, the Poisson
Process, probability spaces, combinatorics, distributions, and expected
values
SticiGui©:
Statistical
Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a Graphical User Interface
(Philip B. Stark,Department of Statistics, University
of California, Berkeley)
Chapters
8-16 there are an introduction to probability.
Rice virtual lab in statistics (Rice University, Houston, Texas; java demos of CLT, binomials etc.)
Binomial probabilities and normal approximation (Java demo, from Philip Stark, Berkeley)
The
CHANCE course : an introductory course for probability and statistics
which has been taught at various universities.
The book: Charles M. Grinstead and J. Laurie Snell,
Introduction to Probability (Second Revised Edition), given as reference
in Math 471 is related (the second author is a co-developer of "Chance").
Articles related to probability from the "CHANCE" area
What is CHANCE ? (with a link to CHANCE magazine: A magazine of the American Statistical Association about statistics and its use in society -- the Scientific American of probability and statistics)
Monty
Hall (Department of Mathematics at the University of California at
San Diego)
The famous problem of the TV Show "Let's make a deal."
Roulette
(Department
of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego)
The gambler's ruin problem. Betting until ruin; Change
your initial capital and the probability of winning.
Confidence
Intervals ( Webster West, University of South Carolina) The confidence
intervals that do not contain the true mean are marked in red. Choose alpha
Richard
Durrett (Cornell University): Probability theory, stochastic
spatial models and their applications to biology
The
Probability Web Provides links to many homepages of workers in
probability theory and to resources for those working in probability.