Stats 116: Introduction to Probability

John Duchi, Stanford University, Spring 2022

Text “book”

  • The Art of Chance, Dennis Sun, Gene Kim, Anav Sood. This is an online textbook that the Statistics faculty are developing on introductory probability. Currently, it is available only online. We will cover one chapter of the book per lecture.

Additional reading and background

Stanford students should have access to (free) online copies of these two books:

  • Introduction to Probability, Joe Blitztein and Jessica Hwang, CRC Press, 2nd edition. Downloadable from Joe's website

  • A First Course in Probability, by Sheldon Ross, Pearson, 10th Edition.