Also, courses on this tend to have a bloody lot of calculus and algebra, to the point of dominating the actual prob & stat knowledge required by about an order of magnitude. Solve lots of problems and review manual computation of integrals & etc. if necessary. I routinely use Mathematica for anything that would take a meaningful time to compute by hand, so it was a huge pain to deal with this aspect.
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Also, courses on this tend to have a bloody lot of calculus and algebra, to the point of dominating the actual prob & stat knowledge required by about an order of magnitude. Solve lots of problems and review manual computation of integrals & etc. if necessary. I routinely use Mathematica for anything that would take a meaningful time to compute by hand, so it was a huge pain to deal with this aspect.