Statistics for Data Science (DCS 525)
Term: 2023-2024 Spring
Brief Bio: Hello all! I am Dr. Murchtricia Jones. The Director of Data Science and Dean of the School of Computing, Applied Sciences, and Engineering. I am so excited to be a part of your educational journey.
Mon, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM (1/8/2024 - 4/21/2024) Location: MAIN DEEDS D201
This course will cover a variety of topics in statistics including data collection methods, measures of central tendency and spread, the relation between two variables, conditional/joint/marginal probabilities, probability distributions, statistical inference, point estimates, confidence intervals, significance testing, goodness-of-fit test, various two-sample tests, Bayesian statistics, Bayes theorem, conjugate priors, posterior distributions, credible intervals, A/B testing, logistic regression.