45-750 Probability and Statistics

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is for first year MBA ONLY. This course introduces tools for decision making under uncertainty, ranging from the fundamentals of probability theory, decision theory and statistical models to simple software for data analysis. Topics include statistical independence, conditional probability, Bayes theorem, discrete and continuous distributions, expectation and variance, decision trees, sampling and sampling distributions, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, p-value, correlation and simple regression.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Fall 2026, Fall 2025

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