Statistics for Machine

Learning
Descriptive Statistics Inferential Bayesian Statistical
Statistics Statistics Learning
 Descriptive Statistics
Introduction to Data
• Why study statistics?
• Variables and data
Univariate Descriptive Statistics
• Graphs and distribution shapes
• Measures of center and spread
• The Normal distribution
• Z-scores
Bivariate Distributions
• The scatterplot
• Correlation
Bivariate Distributions (Categorical Data)
• Contingency tables
• Conditional probability
• Examining independence
Linear Functions
• What is a function?
• Least squares
• The Linear function – regression
Exponential and Logistic Function Models
• Exponential data
• Logs
• The Logistic function model
• Picking a good mode
 Inferential Statistics
Sampling Hypothesis Testing (Categorical Data)
• Why study statistics? • The chi-square test
• The sampling distribution • Goodness-of-Fit
• Central limit theorem • Test-of-Independence
• Confidence intervals Hypothesis Testing
Hypothesis Testing (More Than Two Group Means)
(One and Two Group Means) • The ANOVA
• What makes a hypothesis test? • One-way ANOVA
• Errors in testing • Two-way ANOVA
• Alpha and critical values Hypothesis Testing (Quantitative data)
• Single sample test • Correlation
• Independent t-test and Dependent t-test • Simple (single variable) regression
• Multiple regression
Bayesian Statistics
• Probability and Bayes'
Theorem
• Statistical Inference
• Priors and Models for
Discrete Data
• Models for Continuous
Data
Statistical Learning

• Prediction & Inference

• Parametric & Non-parametric
methods
• Prediction Accuracy and
Model Interpretability
• Bias-Variance Trade-Off