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Statistics for Data Science and Analytics
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Statistics for Data Science and Analytics

by Peter C. Bruce, Peter Gedeck, Janet Dobbins
September 2024
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 30m
English
Wiley
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Index

  • b
  • Babe Ruth  13
  • bandit algorithms  229
  • bar chart  75
  • Benford’s Law  215
  • bias  16, 168
    • nonresponse  191
  • big data  9, 10
  • binary variables  22
  • binomial distribution  126
  • blinding  18
  • blocking  226
  • bootstrap  176–177, 180, 186, 187
  • box plots  75–78
  • c
  • categorical data  22
  • categorical variables  22
    • in regression  316
  • census  40
  • central limit theorem  187
  • central location  62
  • central tendency, see central location
  • chi-square test  152, 153, 213
  • class  337
  • classification 377
  • cluster sampling  190
  • conditional probability  144
  • confidence interval  173
    • proportion formula  182
    • proportion resampling  174
  • contingency table  143
  • control group  14
  • convenience sampling  190–191
  • correlation  249, 253
  • correlation coefficient  256
  • d
  • data dredging  101
  • data science  10–11
  • data snooping  226
  • database format  19
  • dataframe  19–21
  • dataset
    • baseball payroll.csv  263
    • boston-housing-large.csv  332
    • boston-housing.csv  201, 202, 312
    • brain-facebook.csv  270
    • clickthroughs.csv  293
    • delta-wire.csv  284
    • housing.csv  324, 329
    • marriage-therapy.csv  237
    • microUCBAdmissions.csv  198
    • pulse.csv  57, 59, 115, 163, 205, 270
    • RidingMowers.csv  343
    • server-configurations.csv  247
    • streams.csv  205
    • Tayko-known.csv  333
    • Tayko-unknown.csv  333
    • toyota-km.csv  294
    • trade-discount-A-B.csv  119
    • trade-discount.csv  334
    • universal-bank.csv  347
    • web-page-data.csv  89, 116
    • WestRoxbury.csv  ...
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