Statistics for Data Science (DCS 525)

Term: 2025-2026 Spring

Faculty

Lakma Fernando
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Schedule

Mon, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (1/12/2026 - 4/26/2026) Location: MAIN DEEDS D103

Description

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.