Practicing Probability

Do you teach probability theory? Help your students understand probability by offering them online exercises to practice with. Starting with the basics up to conditional probability.


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Open Exercises

Below you find a list of all the lessons and exercises about probability (theory), that are currently already available in Grasple. These materials have been created by Grasple over the past five years in collaboration with different universities. All of these will be released with an open Creative Commons license in the coming months. To access materials that are not yet CC licensed, you can create a free teacher account.

Probability

  • 9 cc Probability Trees
  • 4 cc Conditional Probability
  • 4 cc Take With or Without Replacement
  • 5 cc Expected Value
  • 6 cc Rules for Repetition

Probability Basics

  • 6 cc Conceptual Understanding of Random Variables
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Probabilities
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Sample Space
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of (Probability) Distributions
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Discrete vs Continuous Distributions
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Probability Density Functions and Cumulative Density Functions

Probability Calculations & Rules

  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Marginal Probabilities
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Joint Probabilities
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Conditional Probabilities
  • 7 cc Notation of Probabilities
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Dependent and Independent Events
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Probability Rules
  • 4 cc Computing Probabilities Using Probability Rules

Counting and Expected Values

  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Expected Values
  • 6 cc Computing Expected Values
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Combinations
  • 7 cc Conceptual understanding of Permutations
  • 6 cc Computing Combinations
  • 3 cc Computing Permutations

The Normal Distribution

  • 5 cc Notation of Normal Distribution and Parameters
  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Standard Normal Distribution
  • 3 cc Conceptual Understanding of Combining of Several Normally Distributed Variables
  • 5 cc Computing Parameters of Combined Normally Distributed Variables

Binomial Distribution

  • 12 cc Conceptual Understanding of Binomial Distribution
  • 5 cc Notation of Binomial Distribution and Parameters
  • 8 cc Properties of Binomial Distributions
  • 3 cc Computing with Binomial Distributions

Poisson Distribution

  • 7 cc Conceptual Understanding of Poisson Distribution
  • 7 cc Notation of Poisson Distribution and Parameters
  • 5 cc Properties of the Poisson Distribution
  • 4 cc Computing with Poisson Distributions
  • 12 cc Central Limit Theorem

t-distribution

  • 10 cc Student's t-Distribution (conceptual)
  • 5 cc t-Distribution

Random Variables

  • 2 cc Population and Sample - Conceptual explanation
  • 3 cc Experiments - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Random Variables - Conceptual Explanation
  • 3 cc Realizations of Random Variables - Conceptual Explanation
  • 3 cc Continuous versus Discrete Random Variables - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Notation of Probabilities - Conceptual Explanation

Distribution Functions

  • 2 cc Probability Distribution - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Distribution Functions - Conceptual Explanation
  • 3 cc Probability Density Functions - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Probability Calculations Using Probability Density Functions
  • 2 cc Probability Mass Functions - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Probability Calculations Using Probability Mass Functions

Distribution Functions

  • 3 cc Cumulative Distribution Functions - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Probability Calculations Using Cumulative Distribution Functions
  • 2 cc Relation and Difference Between Mass, Density and Cumulative Functions - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Finding Probability Density Function Using the Cumulative Distribution Function

Well known distribution functions

  • 1 cc Well Known Continuous Distribution Functions (List)

Center and Spread of Distributions

  • 4 cc Expected Value - Conceptual Explanation
  • 4 cc Calculating the Expected Value for Continuous Random Variables
  • 4 cc Second Moment - Conceptual Explanation
  • 4 cc Calculating the Second Moment for Continuous Random Variables
  • 4 cc Variance - Conceptual Explanation
  • 4 cc Calculating the Variance of a Random Variable

Conditional Probability

  • 2 cc Conditional Probability - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Conditional Distribution Functions - Conceptual Explanation
  • 5 cc Calculations with Conditional Distribution Functions

Estimation

  • 2 cc Statistic versus Parameter - Conceptual Explanation
  • 3 cc Statistical Models and Estimation - Conceptual Explanation
  • 3 cc Regression Analysis - Conceptual Explanation
  • 2 cc Finding Parameters of Linear Model Using Regression Analysis
  • 2 cc Maximum Likelihood - Conceptual Explanation
  • 5 cc Estimate Parameters of Distributions Using Maximum Likelihood Estimation
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