Essential Statistics for Data Science: A Concise Crash Course A Concise Crash Course

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Essential Statistics for Data Science: A Concise Crash Course is for students entering a serious graduate program or advanced undergraduate teaching in data science without knowing enough statistics. The three part text introduces readers to the basics of probability and random variables and guides them towards relatively advanced topics in both frequentist and Bayesian in a matter of weeks. Part I, Talking Probability explains the statistical approach to analysing data with a probability model to describe the data generating process. Part II, Doing Statistics demonstrates how the unknown quantities in data i.e. it's parameters is applicable in statistical interference. Part III, Facing Unc…