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42: Maybe? (Probability and Statistics)
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Statistics is a field that is considered boring by a lot of people, including a huge amount of mathematicians. This may be because the history of statistics starts in a sort of humdrum way: collecting information on the population for use by the state. However, it has blossomed into a beautiful field with its fundamental roots in measure theory, and with some very interesting properties. So what is statistics? What is Bayes' theorem? And what are the differences between the frequentist and Bayesian approaches to a problem?
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Statistics is a field that is considered boring by a lot of people, including a huge amount of mathematicians. This may be because the history of statistics starts in a sort of humdrum way: collecting information on the population for use by the state. However, it has blossomed into a beautiful field with its fundamental roots in measure theory, and with some very interesting properties. So what is statistics? What is Bayes' theorem? And what are the differences between the frequentist and Bayesian approaches to a problem?
Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (creativecommons.org)
Ways to support the show:
-Visit our Sponsors: theGreatCoursesPlus.com/breakingmath Get a free month of the Great Courses Plus while supporting this show by clicking the link and signing up! brilliant.org/breakingmath Sign up at brilliant.org, where breaking math listeners get a 20% off of a year's subscription of Brilliant Premium!
Patreon Become a monthly supporter at patreon.com/breakingmath
Merchandise Purchase a Math Poster on Tensor Calculus at our facebook store at facebook.com/breakingmathpodcast
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Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (creativecommons.org)
Ways to support the show:
-Visit our Sponsors: theGreatCoursesPlus.com/breakingmath Get a free month of the Great Courses Plus while supporting this show by clicking the link and signing up! brilliant.org/breakingmath Sign up at brilliant.org, where breaking math listeners get a 20% off of a year's subscription of Brilliant Premium!
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Merchandise Purchase a Math Poster on Tensor Calculus at our facebook store at facebook.com/breakingmathpodcast
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