Basic Probability: web resources


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.