What is Statistics?

• What is Statistics?
  • Objectives
  • Definitions
  • Learning Order
  • Dependencies
  • Setup Instructions
  • History
  • Tools
  • State Of The Art
  • Community
  • Statisticians
  • Testing
  • References
  • Legend

Objectives

• Notes: Statistics.

Definitions

• def statistics¹: tools to understand data (KhanAcademy).

• def statistics²: the science of developing and studying methods for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and presenting empirical data (UCI Department of Statistics).

• def statistics types (KhanAcademy):

  • def descriptive: describe large number dataset with a smaller set of numbers
  • def inferential: predict behavior of dataset by determining behavior of a random sample from it.

• Formal Classification Scheme:

  • ZBMATH

• Theory

  • Theoretical Basis: 60_probability_theory_and_stochastic_processes
  • Formal Science: 62_statistics

Learning Order

• 0_elementary
  • 0_central_tendency
• 08_computational_methods_for_problems_pertaining_to_statistics

Dependencies

• Docker

Setup Instructions

• The repository is configured to use devcontainers for development.
  It requires no setup except an editor that supports devcontainers, which will prompt you on first open to start it in a container.
  • Supported Editors
  • Developing inside a Container

History

Tools

State Of The Art

Community

Statisticians

• Xiao-Li Meng

Testing

• Execute Tests

  pytest

• Spell Check

pyspelling -c spellcheck.yaml

References

• UCI Department of Statistics - Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

Legend

Q: Question for later research
MYINC: My Insight/Conjecture [Could Be Unoriginal/False and Likely Is]

Disclaimer: This is an ongoing and incomplete project to unpack these concepts and serves as my distributed memory.