What statistics to know for Data Science?

Question

Can anyone tell me the aspects of statistics that need to learn for Data Science?

Answer 1

Statistics is a very essential skill for Data Science because it helps to analyze and interpret the data to make conclusions and bring insights. Every data scientist should have knowledge of following statistical concepts:

• Measures of central tendency
• Measures of variance
• Probability Distributions
• Hypothesis Testing
• Dimensionality Reduction techniques
• Sampling methods
• Bayesian statistics

You can watch the following YouTube tutorial to get started with the basics of statistics required for Data Science: