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Statistics

P Probability & Inference

How to reason under uncertainty — from counting outcomes to drawing conclusions from data.

4 concepts— start at the top and work your way down
  1. 1

    Probability

    A number between 0 and 1 measuring how likely an event is to occur.

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    Normal Distribution

    The symmetric bell-shaped distribution that arises naturally from sums of many small random effects.

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  3. 3

    Sampling

    How and why we study a subset of a population to draw conclusions about the whole.

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  4. 4

    Hypothesis Testing

    A formal framework for deciding whether data provides enough evidence to reject a default assumption.

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