Statistics With Commentary

Professor Balaji Srinivasan, on...


...the essence of probability:
"Curtis flips a 50 cent piece: head equals get rich, tails equals die tryin'"

...bimodal distributions:
"One hump, two humps, my humps, my humps"

...set operators:
"Someone let loose at the U factory"

...n-choose-k combinatorics:
"Just hope you didn't pick the poisonous cracker jack"

...discretizing continuous random variables:
"In my country there is problem, and problem is random variable"

...whiteboards:
"I'll do to them what Saddam did to the Kurds"

...joint distributions:
"five little six little seven little RVs"