You need to know the following topics of Probability Theory and Statistics to become a Data Scientist:
- Bayes’ Theorem,
- Random Variables
- Variance and Expectation
- Probability Distributions
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE)
- Sampling Methods.
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