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 

Content Developers

Scott Brinley
Lead Instructor
David Lee
​Instructor
Connor Pang
Instructor
Eric Zhao
Instructor