Lecture 22: Expectation

MIT 6.1200J Mathematics for Computer Science, Spring 2024
Instructor: Erik Demaine

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This lecture is about the notion of expectation of a random variable, and a really cool property called linearity of expectation which makes computing expected values so much easier.

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