Databricks

Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

This course is part of Introduction to Computational Statistics for Data Scientists Specialization

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  • The basics of Probability, Bayesian statistics, modeling and inference.

  • You will also get a hands-on introduction to using Python for computational statistics using Scikit-learn, SciPy and Numpy.

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Course

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals

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There are 4 modules in this course

Introduction to the compute environment for the Specialization. The users will be introduced to the Databricks Ecosystem for Data Science. The users can also deploy the notebooks to Binder for setup-free access.

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4 videos1 reading

In this module, you will learn the foundations of probability and statistics. The focus is on gaining familiarity with terms and concepts.

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17 videos7 readings12 quizzes

Tis module will be an introduction to common distributions along with the Python code to generate, plot and interact with these distributions. You will also learn how to perform Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) for various distributions and Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) for non-parametric distributions.

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12 videos2 readings2 quizzes

This module introduces you to various sampling algorithms for generating distributions. You will also be introduced to Python code that performs sampling.

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6 videos2 readings3 quizzes

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3.5 (16 ratings)
Dr. Srijith Rajamohan
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