Videos for Tuesday, May 19, 2026–Monday, May 25, 2026
The videos below are selected to support and extend the concepts covered this week. Watch them before or after working through the exercises.
Covers probability distributions and random sampling in R — a practical complement to this week’s visualisation work.
An explanation of the normal distribution, why it appears so often in nature and statistics, and how to work with it in R.
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title: "Visualising Probability"
date: "2026-05-19"
date_end: "2026-05-25"
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The videos below are selected to support and extend the concepts covered this week. Watch them before or after working through the exercises.
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## Statistical Computing in R: Probability
Covers probability distributions and random sampling in R — a practical complement to this week's visualisation work.
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## The Normal Distribution
An explanation of the normal distribution, why it appears so often in nature and statistics, and how to work with it in R.
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