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  • @Quarker
    @Quarker 10 лет назад +1049

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    • @riccardocapellino9078
      @riccardocapellino9078 4 года назад +16

      I had an introduction to statistics for my Physics course, professor spent 1 hour on this and I thought it was complex nonsense..

    • @amelialane7150
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      wait university? I’m in 7th lol and this helps aha

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  • @avananana
    @avananana 2 года назад +261

    I don't care that this video is over 13 years old, it still contains more useful and comprehensible information than most formal lectures that you can find at universities and colleges. Khan Academy is a blessing to university students.

    • @SuperOtter
      @SuperOtter Год назад +2

      yeah but the 240p is kinda annoying

    • @rishabhpandey12aroll7.5
      @rishabhpandey12aroll7.5 Год назад +3

      Sometimes the best content is the vintage one. I still believe that teachers like him are the best teachers that we can find.

    • @abebayehuhaile49
      @abebayehuhaile49 9 месяцев назад

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    • @smartguyray3372
      @smartguyray3372 6 месяцев назад

      I'm a current student now taking Statistics and although I was looking for something else, this video just helped me understand what I was working on last week and it's clearer now.

    • @rakhadavin1988
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      and now was 15 y.o IM watched this video, and still good for me

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    its 2021 and im here before my test, Sal you saving me even more than a decade later

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    • @abhishekbhattacharya7343
      @abhishekbhattacharya7343 8 лет назад +1

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      @mukund1270 8 лет назад

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    • @Thefeared786
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      They were probably born after year 2000. That generation doesn't have an attention span unfortunately.

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      u were born pretty tho, lul.

    • @lulusaa7499
      @lulusaa7499 6 лет назад +1

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  • @Mega88Kat
    @Mega88Kat 4 года назад +89

    this video is so old what
    why is it still more helpful than my professor

    • @tanmay1306
      @tanmay1306 3 года назад

      ig your professor is older than that

  • @ZA-GOAT
    @ZA-GOAT 4 месяца назад +6

    15 years ago is crazzyy!! 💀💀

  • @guitance23
    @guitance23 8 лет назад +64

    My tenth video in the Statistics and overall also in Khan academy and I had to now pause it this time and come here to say "Thank You". You explain things very nicely. I like the way you open spaces when you act unsure and also provoke us to think which is good as we get to feel that these notions and certain concepts are just linguistic mappings but the ideas are more than that and they are to be grasped.

  • @jonowilliams3600
    @jonowilliams3600 7 лет назад +90

    EXACTLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN

    • @danielniels22
      @danielniels22 3 года назад +8

      NOT 2.0000000000000000001
      NOT 1.999999999999999999
      NOT A SINGLE WATER MOLECULE

    • @dheerennn
      @dheerennn 3 года назад

      Is it a .5 chance?

    • @nocturnalvisionmusic
      @nocturnalvisionmusic 2 года назад

      @@danielniels22 loved this part too much 🤣

    • @danielniels22
      @danielniels22 2 года назад +2

      @@nocturnalvisionmusic hey thanks for replying my 1 year old comment, it reminds me the day when I first learn stats

    • @nocturnalvisionmusic
      @nocturnalvisionmusic 2 года назад +1

      @@danielniels22 no problem! Good reminder for me too :D

  • @Peter_1986
    @Peter_1986 10 лет назад +31

    Sal started studying math at college and at several universities in his early 20s, and since math tends to be really deep at universities it will give you a great understanding for lots of related subjects.
    Also, Sal definitely seems to understand how to learn and teach very effectively.

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    @Moondye7 12 лет назад +91

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      love u too

    • @MrMw3gamer
      @MrMw3gamer 3 года назад

      Lol wenn man im Masterstudium zum ersten mal statistik hat und dann Moondye unter dem Video sieht XD

    • @sampurnakc
      @sampurnakc 3 года назад

      Just liked your comment to make the number of likes 69. I also love his explanation though. :)

  • @luiscid8937
    @luiscid8937 7 лет назад +70

    Thank you, Khan Academy for allowing me to survive college.

  • @rajshah7734
    @rajshah7734 10 месяцев назад +5

    Truly grateful to you, sir! What you explained in just 10 minutes was far better than any of my college or tuition teachers.

  • @rishabhpandey12aroll7.5
    @rishabhpandey12aroll7.5 Год назад +5

    Sometimes the best content is the vintage one. I still believe that teachers like him are the best teachers that we can find.

  • @078matthijs
    @078matthijs 12 лет назад +17

    Around 6:00, when Sal began with doing a bit of Calculus, I smiled. I know Calculus because of the Khan Academy!! I know so much because of the Khan Academy. And it makes me so happy knowing that there are superb lectures out there on which I can rely. Next semester I'm starting with Statistics, unfortunately the teacher is terrible, so thank you Sal for these videos.

    • @qoxx
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      how is life going?

  • @shashankrustagi5611
    @shashankrustagi5611 5 лет назад +5

    10 years of this video, a petal of thanks from INDIA, this helps me in my GATE 2019 exam

  • @louiscritchie
    @louiscritchie 10 лет назад +37

    I feel like this should take 1 hour to become a master of, but that is probably just an effect of Khan's explanation.

    • @tedchirvasiu
      @tedchirvasiu 5 лет назад +9

      But what's the probability of it being EXACTLY ONE HOUR OF BECOMING?

    • @jacktheninja
      @jacktheninja 5 лет назад +2

      @@tedchirvasiu basically impossible to master because of that one darn microsecond.

  • @tanmay1306
    @tanmay1306 3 года назад +4

    Says I don't know upto 10 times in a lecture but knows almost everything that this world has.

    • @tanmay1306
      @tanmay1306 3 года назад

      @Atharva Kaduskar Nah, Masters' Entrance.

  • @carlamk8348
    @carlamk8348 10 лет назад +15

    you save me in every single class!!

  • @kaiar
    @kaiar 10 лет назад +13

    I feel enlightened! Really much appreciated and I love your sense of humour. passing CFA L 1 seems so much more realistic now!

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    That moment at 8:30 when it hits you: "From another persons stand of view this looks like shit - a mess made by a kid - but still far more effective than my book in Prob.&Stat."

    • @Cube2deth
      @Cube2deth 3 года назад

      I don't understand you

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    @zukisanimakapela9055 10 лет назад +9

    You are amazing, thanks sir, I'm half way across the world from where you are and your videos are making a huge difference to my learning. Keep it up please...

  • @_aft
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    I like how he starts raging at 4:00 LOLOLO.

  • @andrewpark1471
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    I used to watch this back in high school in 2009. Does the resolution gets degraded over time? lol 240p really?
    Khan Academy saved my life 12 years ago, and now I'm an engineer sitting in my office trying to remember what probability density function was :'D. Guys, you will need this for reliability engineering if you're ever involved in product development!
    and there Sal saves my life once again after all this time.

  • @ShahariarRabby
    @ShahariarRabby 7 лет назад +1

    Those who don't understand it, I suggest you to watch the Discrete and continues video. Then you easily get it.

  • @joserivers1306
    @joserivers1306 7 лет назад +2

    I hate when people complain about free shit. If you don't like these videos then go to your local county college and pay $1000 for a course. Otherwise stop complaining and let him do what he likes.

  • @Romeowasbleeding1
    @Romeowasbleeding1 14 лет назад +5

    LOL!
    " Not 2.01 inches of rain. Not 1.99 inches of rain, not 1.99999 inches of rain, not 2000001 inches of rain"
    Gosh I started to get the feeling that he wasn't going to stop! :D

  • @RollerBGM
    @RollerBGM 11 лет назад +2

    Agreed, educators are greatly under-appreciated.
    This man does more for my education than my professors...

  • @xaladrez7811
    @xaladrez7811 Год назад +1

    I was in Grade 1 when this video came out. Wow. And now im using it

  • @apchaphekar
    @apchaphekar 11 лет назад +2

    I agree with the Nobel Prize comment. I think that is the world's most insightful explaination of a normal distribution curve. i feel blessed!

  • @janetkargbo-fc6uz
    @janetkargbo-fc6uz 10 месяцев назад

    There are literal tears forming in my eyes. I’ve been sitting in my probability class feeling so stupid because I couldn’t comprehend this. Thank you so much!!!

  • @rasmuskarlsson2906
    @rasmuskarlsson2906 8 лет назад +158

    One point nein, nein, nein, nein, nein!

  • @hazelgo952
    @hazelgo952 6 лет назад +1

    Yeah I had my doubts thanks to some of the comments but wow, this was heckin useful thanks man!! I finally understand what that integral is for lol
    To anyone who says they're wasting 10 minutes, just watch it at a faster speed and skip portions you're already confident in.

  • @BoZhaoengineering
    @BoZhaoengineering 5 лет назад

    this guy is teaching much better than the lecturers in my class. I feel lucky watching the topic centered tutorials.

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    @ivan09182000 3 года назад +1

    I don't know why I gave my university for $42100 1 year instead of this youtube channel.

  • @rmcgraw7943
    @rmcgraw7943 5 месяцев назад +1

    A line has no area, and area is required for probabilistic determination. A line (PDF) is a likelihood; an area (CDF) yields a probability.

  • @Xiaorui1016
    @Xiaorui1016 14 лет назад

    This video should be named as 'continuous random variables' instead of 'probability density functions'. Probability density functions are one of two ways to describe the distribution of continuous random variables; and they're the derivatives of cumulative distribution functions.

  • @rishabhnarula1999
    @rishabhnarula1999 11 месяцев назад +2

    wow,sal is such a gem of a teacher,great job.

  • @andrewhunter6880
    @andrewhunter6880 9 лет назад +87

    Omg the rant about the atoms of rain almost ended me.

    • @anikakabir9145
      @anikakabir9145 4 года назад

      I know right. I was like, I do not have time, just give me the solution.

    • @nocturnalvisionmusic
      @nocturnalvisionmusic 2 года назад

      I loved that part honestly 😂

  • @trainedtiger
    @trainedtiger 15 лет назад +7

    I love it! Your incredible! I'm studying for exams to be an actuary, and this is helping me immensely.

    • @skeletonhorse_person
      @skeletonhorse_person 3 года назад +3

      TrainedTiger Hey how are you ? You commented this 11 years ago, it’s really interesting to me too see a thought from a person that’s 11 years old, how’s life bud ?

    • @tasneemahmed3398
      @tasneemahmed3398 11 месяцев назад

      @@skeletonhorse_person Heeey! and you commented this 2 years ago, how's life?

  • @mihirkumar2887
    @mihirkumar2887 Год назад

    This guy is crazy, There is no one like Sal Khan my god !

  • @WiredWizardsRealm-et5pp
    @WiredWizardsRealm-et5pp 5 месяцев назад

    No doubt after internet came .. suddenly science got advanced.. cuz now students can understand what someone tryna teach in lectures

  • @nelsonw2096
    @nelsonw2096 Год назад

    Watching this video in Feb 2023 from San Francisco, and again we are happily watching it rain outside after some rough months leading into this winter. :-)

  • @chatsociety
    @chatsociety 11 лет назад +3

    These videos brought back fears I had in stats classes!

  • @Yaki755
    @Yaki755 Год назад

    its crazy how im 19yo and this vid is here since i was 6, thank you

  • @rohitpingale8774
    @rohitpingale8774 4 года назад +2

    One of the best stats tutorials, I have ever seen :)

  • @nocturnalvisionmusic
    @nocturnalvisionmusic 8 месяцев назад

    3:15-4:28 is the best part of the video - love that rain specification 😆😁🌧️

  • @lisaslavick7737
    @lisaslavick7737 9 лет назад

    OMG I am SO thankful for these videos. I was so lost in my biostatistics class. Thankfully my stepson told me to check them out...lifesaver.

  • @srmcarthur
    @srmcarthur 11 лет назад +1

    Let's all tell our educators that they are appreciated today - tell one teacher or a wise helpful person in our life today how we feel.
    #TeacherAppreciationDay

  • @khaleeesi
    @khaleeesi Год назад

    Khan Academy still outchea saving lives and degrees!

  • @brendanrivers
    @brendanrivers 11 лет назад

    Just the fact that you make these videos changes how I feel about human nature in general. You are a saint!

  • @japanboy31415
    @japanboy31415 5 месяцев назад +1

    15 years later ma guy still be helping me out.

  • @kimikokimi
    @kimikokimi Год назад

    My professor made it sound like something crazy but you just explained it so easily. Thank you!

  • @caseycdecker
    @caseycdecker 9 лет назад +2

    You should make a video about density function without calculus for uniform continuous variables

  • @wa9r
    @wa9r 13 лет назад

    you are 9000 times better than my stats professor.

  • @user-bu8mg7uq3s
    @user-bu8mg7uq3s 2 года назад +2

    i probably will get 0 or something tomorrow but i am still watching...

  • @brittothomas8614
    @brittothomas8614 11 месяцев назад

    wow, just wow.. i am working on learning ML and I am from a non-tech bg, I am at a stage where i wanted to understand what exactly is PDF. I was expecting a vague answer only people mathematically inclined would understand, I was wrong, this make me understand discrete and continuous variables in relation to PDF.. Thank you Khan Academy, now I know here to look for answers that I can understand from ground level

  • @Rsingh1
    @Rsingh1 2 года назад

    Thanks! for you understand that we understand things better when presented via graphically

  • @shantanudas
    @shantanudas 13 лет назад

    This guy will one day win the Nobel peace prize - for changing millions of fates for the better!

  • @p0k_
    @p0k_ 7 лет назад

    thank you so much, i didn't have a clue how or what these things even were and i have a stats 2 exam in like a month, this video saved my life

  • @excelwoman8514
    @excelwoman8514 Год назад

    This is really helping, i feel enlightened when i see this. Tysm

  • @oberlinio
    @oberlinio 2 года назад +1

    So for variables that cannot be negative, like rain fall, how do we / the function take into consideration that part of the distribution which crosses into negative? Is this where we would use log normal distribution?

  • @zhenminliu
    @zhenminliu 12 лет назад

    I find the lecturer very interesting and humorous. Who says Stats has to be boring. Thank you!

  • @lazarnedeljkovic5615
    @lazarnedeljkovic5615 10 месяцев назад +1

    I hope my statistics professor is going to watch this someday and stop torturing students.

  • @beefandpotatoes6525
    @beefandpotatoes6525 Год назад

    Probability density function is the probability of x being between two numbers say between 3 and 5 which is the area under the curve between 3 and 5.

  • @zaidhamdaan1905
    @zaidhamdaan1905 Год назад

    This video is a blessing for learning this topic
    Alhamdulillah
    Thanks sal sir.

  • @xverc3x
    @xverc3x 12 лет назад +1

    dude..u are hilarious...Not 1.9 , not 2.01 , not 1.98,not 2.00001 but EXACTLY 2 . haha..i started laughing in the library :P ....Great work though..!! Thank u so much for these videos!!

  • @thephysicsguy181
    @thephysicsguy181 8 лет назад +1

    I am confused about one thing. Is it the fact that we choose to define an infinitesimal interval to model physical phenomena more realistically or is there a more fundamental mathematical reasoning behind it? Because the probability being 0 at an exact value is just a definition and can be easily changed (or is that also wrong?).

  • @10babiscar
    @10babiscar 12 лет назад

    people like him don't believe in fate, but he should win some award.

  • @alexandresavardo
    @alexandresavardo 3 года назад

    I EXACTLY love you.
    Yep, even 13 years later.

  • @imnumber142
    @imnumber142 12 лет назад +1

    I think this is the first time I have watched one of your videos where you didn't use all the colors in the palette. And I've watched a lot of your videos

  • @petepittsburgh
    @petepittsburgh 14 лет назад

    We were not discussing whether pi is useful in math, we know that. We're talking about whether it's measurable in practice. Which it is not. Maybe you can talk some sense in to him. And he'll finally understand that the probability of getting any single number in a continuous distribution is always zero.

  • @ignaitog
    @ignaitog День назад +1

    casually studying from this video in 2024 lmao

  • @inflamedwithrage92
    @inflamedwithrage92 11 лет назад +1

    And now P[X=x]=0 for all x in R makes sense for continuous case.

  • @em0vskangoura
    @em0vskangoura 12 лет назад

    You are more than a GOD of teaching!

  • @beebz666
    @beebz666 7 лет назад +1

    skip from 3:08 to 4:30. 1:30 minutes of counting zeros and why 2 != 2.1

  • @sdzuzyf47
    @sdzuzyf47 12 лет назад

    You are doing such a great job. But one opinion, get a sketch pad, those things a graphic designer will use to substitue mouse. Words would look much better.

  • @ariah5093
    @ariah5093 2 года назад +1

    60% of the time it works every time

  • @Oscar-jg9gg
    @Oscar-jg9gg Год назад

    give this man an oscar!

  • @pinkcray0n
    @pinkcray0n 11 лет назад

    This is amazing because my prof just told us that given points have no probability but he didn't explain why so I was just memorizing facts but after watching this video I see the logic behind these facts!! Thanks!!

  • @ashkandv1983
    @ashkandv1983 13 лет назад +1

    great and helpful! I should say this is the first or second time that I leave "like " and comment on a video in youtube!!!
    Ashkan

  • @Mexisio22
    @Mexisio22 9 лет назад +7

    Holy Shit. We've been in drought mode since 2009?

  • @esmailiyou
    @esmailiyou 6 лет назад

    This channel has the best video on probability

  • @frankmelenthe189
    @frankmelenthe189 Год назад

    The tail risk of not learning cfds is that you might become subject to one

  • @katy6470
    @katy6470 3 года назад

    I really hate solving , solving is my # 1 enemy in my subjects and then now I'm going to report this topic , it's really hard for me. But thanks to this video. ❤️❤️

  • @johnnyroc
    @johnnyroc 4 года назад

    The concepts are extremely easy and memorizing all the definitions and formulas is extremely hard. So 50/50 chance I pass my Econometrics class. My professor is useless so I'm all over the web trying to figure it out.

  • @wildRLE
    @wildRLE 15 лет назад +1

    you are awesome
    made me grasp this concept better then any of my previous classes

  • @ominous450
    @ominous450 12 лет назад

    these videos are great. for some reason my prof like to make the material harder than it actually is!

  • @samaritantajjeb2385
    @samaritantajjeb2385 9 лет назад

    @ 8:11 you cant calculate the probability P(>4) unless you use limits. In a case like that where there is an asymptote on one side but not the other use: P(>4) = 1 - P(

  • @anandw0w
    @anandw0w 2 года назад

    Omg saving my life thank you!!!!!!!!!!

  • @MrBinitpatel
    @MrBinitpatel 3 года назад

    Learning from the best teacher in the world..

  • @TheSevenofMine
    @TheSevenofMine 9 лет назад

    Great video! Finally understood PDF. Didn't have a clue during the lecture at university.

  • @Mike_elGreco
    @Mike_elGreco 2 года назад

    I am on my master degree now and I searched for this video to do my repetition

  • @tharunishadi3980
    @tharunishadi3980 12 лет назад

    you are a life savior !! thanks sal...

  • @inflamedwithrage92
    @inflamedwithrage92 11 лет назад

    Its sad that we are prescribed such sad books on probability and statistics on an undergrad level,which only serves to complicate things by rigor-izing BASIC concepts like Random variables and density functions.And now I finally understand the reasoning behind it all.Thanks.

  • @xmljson9716
    @xmljson9716 4 года назад

    Thank you for your teaching, i totally get the key about the Probability density and PDF.

  • @sithandweyinkosincube2200
    @sithandweyinkosincube2200 5 лет назад

    I recommend that these videos are so much useful to my studies.

  • @HuyTran-eb3ch
    @HuyTran-eb3ch Год назад

    you are literally saving me from my lecture... he takes 3 hours just to explain a quarter of the lesson but no one in my class understands...

  • @danchisholm1
    @danchisholm1 12 лет назад

    You rock. I hope you've made lots of money off these. You deserve to.

  • @KamuzXDriver
    @KamuzXDriver 13 лет назад

    @Cerpin1 Basically any distribution showing you the prob. of a given value of a random variable is a prob. distribution. When we talk about discrete random variables it's called prob. mass function, and when continuous it's called prob. density function.
    btw, I love these videos, great explanation!

  • @AllAboutJailbreak
    @AllAboutJailbreak 7 лет назад +7

    Extremely well explained