2021 What are the Odds?

2021 INNO SUMMER INSTITUTE

What are the Odds?

Course Description

Why are the polls often so inaccurate? What are the chances you guessed that whole multiple choice exam correctly? The best play in a game of cards? If you have ever wondered about any of these questions, What are the Odds? is the course for you. In this statistics-based course, we will be learning all about how likely it is for anything to happen, or not happen, and why.

Eligibility

Student at the Inno Summer Institute
Cannot take Blast Off

Outline

Day 1: Course Fundamentals
Day 2: Modeling Data
Day 3: Central Tendencies
Day 4: Probability: Set Theory
Day 5: Designing Probability Based Games
Day 6: Game Theory
Day 7: Lying with Statistics
Day 8: Interesting Probability Problems
Day 9: Statistics in Biology
Day 10: Modeling COVID