• ISBN13: 9781138393295
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: CRC/CH
• Publication Date: December 16, 2020
• Pages: 376
• Original Price: 58.99 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 678 grams

About the Book Probability and Statistics for Data Science: Math + R + Data</strong> covers "math stat"--distributions, expected value, estimation etc.--but takes the phrase "Data Science" in the title quite seriously: * Real datasets are used extensively. * All data analysis is supported by R coding. * Includes many Data Science applications, such as PCA, mixture distributions, random graph models, Hidden Markov models, linear and logistic regression, and neural networks. * Leads the student to think critically about the "how" and "why" of statistics, and to "see the big picture." * Not "theorem/proof"-oriented, but concepts and models are stated in a mathematically precise manner. Prerequisites are calculus, some matrix algebra, and some experience in programming. Norman Matloff is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis, and was formerly a statistics professor there. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Statistical Software and The R Journal . His book Statistical Regression and Classification: From Linear Models to Machine Learning was the recipient of the Ziegel Award for the best book reviewed in Technometrics in 2017. He is a recipient of his university's Distinguished Teaching Award.