Название: Statistical Foundations, Reasoning and Inference: For Science and Data Science
Автор: Goran Kauermann, Helmut Kuchenhoff, Christian Heumann
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 361
Размер: 10,8 Mb
Язык: English

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to statistical principles, concepts and methods that are essential in modern statistics and data science. The topics covered include likelihood-based inference, Bayesian statistics, regression, statistical tests and the quantification of uncertainty. Moreover, the book addresses statistical ideas that are useful in modern data analytics, including bootstrapping, modeling of multivariate distributions, missing data analysis, causality as well as principles of experimental design.
The textbook includes sufficient material for a two-semester course and is intended for master’s students in data science, statistics and computer science with a rudimentary grasp of probability theory. It will also be useful for data science practitioners who want to strengthen their statistics skills.