>People with the mathematical maturity to understand it don't really need the "review". I don't really think that holds water. I read through the document and

>People with the mathematical maturity to understand it don't really need the "review". I don't really think that holds water. I read through the document and understood perfectly everything it said, but I couldn't have told you right before reading it how the variance of a distribution is defined. Plus, even if everyone's up to date on probability, the doc defines the notation the course will use. It's unlikely that people with different backgrounds all share common notation and (to some extent) terminology. 229 is a class for grad students as well as "advanced undergrads", so much of the class won't have learned probability in the same place. Hell, I took probability at Stanford, and if we ever used omega to denote an outcome space, I don't remember it.