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: