Probability & Statistics Fundamentals for Machine Learning
Chapter 1: Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Machine Learning
What are Probability and Statistics?
Relevance in Machine Learning
Understanding Data Types
Populations and Samples
Setting Up the Python Environment
Hands-on Practical: Loading and Inspecting Data
Quiz for Chapter 1
Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics: Summarizing Data
Measuring the Center: Mean, Median, and Mode
Measuring Spread: Variance and Standard Deviation
Measuring Spread: Range
Understanding Percentiles and Quartiles
Visualizing Distributions: Histograms
Visualizing Summaries: Box Plots
Calculating Descriptive Statistics with Python
Practice: Summarizing a Dataset
Quiz for Chapter 2
Chapter 3: Basic Probability Concepts
Understanding Probability: Events and Sample Spaces
Calculating Simple Probabilities
Introduction to Set Theory for Probability
Conditional Probability Explained
Independent vs. Dependent Events
Introduction to Bayes' Theorem
Practice: Probability Calculations
Quiz for Chapter 3
Chapter 4: Probability Distributions
What are Probability Distributions?
Probability Mass Function (PMF) for Discrete Distributions
Discrete Distribution: Bernoulli
Discrete Distribution: Binomial
Probability Density Function (PDF) for Continuous Distributions
Continuous Distribution: Uniform
Continuous Distribution: Normal (Gaussian)
The Central Limit Theorem
Generating Samples from Distributions using Python
Practice: Working with Distributions
Quiz for Chapter 4
Chapter 5: Introduction to Statistical Inference
Drawing Conclusions from Data
Point Estimation
Interval Estimation: Confidence Intervals
Hypothesis Testing: The Basic Idea
Null and Alternative Hypotheses
Understanding P-values
Connecting Inference to Machine Learning Evaluation
Practice: Interpreting Statistical Results
Quiz for Chapter 5
Measuring the Center: Mean, Median, and Mode
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- OpenIntro Statistics, David M Diez, Christopher D Barr, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, 2019 (OpenIntro) - A widely used, free, and accessible textbook providing a solid foundation in descriptive statistics, including detailed explanations of the mean, median, and mode.
- Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python, Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce, Peter Gedeck, 2020 (O'Reilly Media) - This book bridges classical statistics and data science, offering practical insights into how measures of central tendency are applied and interpreted in a machine learning context.
- Introduction to Probability and Statistics (MIT OpenCourseWare 18.05), Jeremy Orloff, Jonathan Bloom, 2014 (MIT OpenCourseWare) - Provides university-level lecture notes and course materials from MIT on fundamental statistical concepts, including a thorough explanation of central tendency measures.