Essential Statistics for Data Science
Learn basic statistical concepts used in data science and machine learning
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INTRODUCTION
Statistical concepts are used widely to extract useful information from data. This article will review essential statistical concepts applicable in data science and machine learning.
Probability Distribution
A probability distribution shows how feature values are distributed around the mean value. Using the iris dataset, the probability distributions for the sepal length, sepal width, petal length, and petal width can be generated using the code below.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn import datasets
import seaborn as…