EssentialStatisticsforDataScience:AConciseCrashCourseisforstudentsenteringaseriousgraduateprogramoradvancedundergraduateteachingindatasciencewithoutknowingenoughstatistics.Thethree-parttextstartsfromthebasicsofprobabilityandrandomvariablesandguidesreaderstowardsrelativelyadvancedtopicsinbothfrequentistandBayesianapproachesinamatterofweeks.PartI,TalkingProbabilityexplainsthatthestatisticalapproachtoanalysingdatastartswithaprobabilitymodeltodescribethedatageneratingprocess.PartII,DoingStatisticsexplainsthatmuchofstatisticalinferenceisaboutlearningunknownquantitiesinthemodel(e.g.itsparameters)fromthedataitispresumedtohavegenerated.PartIII,FacingUncertaintyexplainstheimportanceofexplicitlydescribinghowmuchuncertaintywehaveaboutthemodelparameters,especiallythosewithintrinsicscientificmeaning,andoftakingthatintoaccountwhenmakingdecisions.EssentialStatisticsforDataScience:AConciseCrashCourseprovidesanin-depthintroductionforbeginners,whilebeingmoreseriousthanatypicalundergraduatetext,butstilllighterandmoreaccessiblethananaveragegraduatetext.
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