Essentials of Data Science With R Software - 1: Probability and Statistical Inference

IIT Kanpur July 201
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Dec 3, 2023
Intro Video of "Essentials of Data Science With R Software - 1: Probability and Statistical Inference" course by Prof. Shalabh, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, IIT-Kanpur
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hello friends welcome to the course
essentials of
data science with r software one and in
this
course we are going to handle the topics
of probability theory and statistical
inference
which are useful in data sciences now
the first question comes what are we
really going to do in this course and
what are we really going to learn in
this course
well we know that data science is one of
the most popular
name nowadays among all the subjects
now what is data science data science
depends on several aspects
statistics computer science etcetera and
each of this subject plays a very
important role
in creating the foundation for the data
sciences
now what is the role of statistics what
are the different tools which are going
to be
used in data sciences from the
statistical point of view
or what are the tools which helps in
data sciences in taking out the correct
statistical inference and correct
judgment
these are the tools what we are going to
learn in this course
well there can be enormous number of
statistical tool which are used in
data sciences but in this case we are
going to
learn the foundations of data sciences
that means
those topics which are going to create
the foundations for
the learning of data sciences
definitely without learning these
courses you cannot learn
data sciences so we are essentially
going to
deal with the topic of probability
theory and
statistical inferences and
the main thing is this when we are
trying to study these topics from the
statistics point of view
possibly we can read them we can study
them in a small
sample also but usually in data sciences
the sample size is very large
so you have to be very confident
before applying any statistical tool
that when you are going to apply it on a
much bigger data set
that is ultimately give you
the correct answer
correct statistical outcome
or the correct interpretation of the
results
in data sensor you will not have an
opportunity to look into the data
and then decide what your data is trying
to
to make you learn you have to learn
yourself
on the basis of statistical tool so
by learning these topics you will gain
confidence
that whatever tool you are going to use
in the
data sciences they are appropriate
they are worthy and
they are going to give you the correct
statistical
inference based on that you can take a
correct judgment
so that is the basic motive in this
course which i am going to
deal with now when you are trying to
deal with bigger
data sets definitely if you want to
implement any statistical tool
you need the help of a software so
there are various software which can be
used but in this course i am going to
concentrate on the
r software r is a free software
and i expect that you have a basic
knowledge of
the r software although i will be giving
you an idea that what type of tool i am
going to
use in this course which are from the r
software
but surely i expect that in case if you
know the r software better
that will help you
so now we are ready to venture into
the learning of the topics of data
sciences and with this motive i welcome
you in this course
and i will see you in the next lecture
whenever we start the course
till then good bye
