Introduction to Computational Statistics for Data Scientists

Offered By: Databricks via Coursera

Course Description

Overview

The purpose of this series of courses is to teach the basics of Computational Statistics for the purpose of performing inference to aspiring or new Data Scientists. This is not intended to be a comprehensive course that teaches the basics of statistics and probability nor does it cover Frequentist statistical techniques based on the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST). What it does cover is: The basics of Bayesian statistics and probability Understanding Bayesian inference and how it works The bare-minimum set of tools and a body of knowledge required to perform Bayesian inference in Python, i.e. the PyData stack of NumPy, Pandas, Scipy, Matplotlib, Seaborn and Plot.ly A scalable Python-based framework for performing Bayesian inference, i.e. PyMC3 With this goal in mind, the content is divided into the following three main sections (courses). Introduction to Bayesian Statistics - The attendees will start off by learning the the basics of probability, Bayesian modeling and inference in Course 1. Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods - This will be followed by a series of lectures on how to perform inference approximately when exact calculations are not viable in Course 2. PyMC3 for Bayesian Modeling and Inference - PyMC3 will be introduced along with its application to some real world scenarios. The lectures will be delivered through Jupyter notebooks and the attendees are expected to interact with the notebooks.

Syllabus

Course 1: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
- Offered by Databricks. The objective of this course is to introduce Computational Statistics to aspiring or new data scientists. The ... Enroll for free.

Course 2: Bayesian Inference with MCMC
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Course 3: Introduction to PyMC3 for Bayesian Modeling and Inference
- Offered by Databricks. The objective of this course is to introduce PyMC3 for Bayesian Modeling and Inference, The attendees will start off ... Enroll for free.

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12 hours 47 minutes
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The objective of this course is to introduce Computational Statistics to aspiring or new data scientists. The attendees will start off by learning the basics of probability, Bayesian modeling and inference. This will be the first course in a specialization of three courses .Python and Jupyter notebooks will be used throughout this course to illustrate and perform Bayesian modeling. The course website is located at https://sjster.github.io/introduction_to_computational_statistics/docs/index.html. The course notebooks can be downloaded from this website by following the instructions on page https://sjster.github.io/introduction_to_computational_statistics/docs/getting_started.html. The instructors for this course will be Dr. Srijith Rajamohan and Dr. Robert Settlage.
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11 hours 43 minutes
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The objective of this course is to introduce PyMC3 for Bayesian Modeling and Inference, The attendees will start off by learning the the basics of PyMC3 and learn how to perform scalable inference for a variety of problems. This will be the final course in a specialization of three courses .Python and Jupyter notebooks will be used throughout this course to illustrate and perform Bayesian modeling with PyMC3.. The course website is located at https://sjster.github.io/introduction_to_computational_statistics/docs/index.html. The course notebooks can be downloaded from this website by following the instructions on page https://sjster.github.io/introduction_to_computational_statistics/docs/getting_started.html. The instructor for this course will be Dr. Srijith Rajamohan.
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14 hours 38 minutes
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The objective of this course is to introduce Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian modeling and inference, The attendees will start off by learning the the basics of Monte Carlo methods. This will be augmented by hands-on examples in Python that will be used to illustrate how these algorithms work. This will be the second course in a specialization of three courses .Python and Jupyter notebooks will be used throughout this course to illustrate and perform Bayesian modeling with PyMC3. The course website is located at https://sjster.github.io/introduction_to_computational_statistics/docs/index.html. The course notebooks can be downloaded from this website by following the instructions on page https://sjster.github.io/introduction_to_computational_statistics/docs/getting_started.html. The instructor for this course will be Dr. Srijith Rajamohan.

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Dr. Srijith Rajamohan