2nd Edition

Introduction to Data Science Statistics and Prediction Algorithms Through Case Studies

By Rafael A. Irizarry Copyright 2027
480 Pages 117 Color & 102 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

480 Pages 117 Color & 102 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Introduction to Data Science: Statistics and Prediction Algorithms Through Case Studies teaches data science as a way of thinking statistically, not just as a collection of computational tools. Building on the topics covered in Introduction to Data Science: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R, this book is designed for students with some programming experience and basic mathematical... Read more

Distributions Numerical Summaries Comparing Groups Connecting Data and Probability Discrete Probability Continuous Probability Random Variables Sampling Models and the Central Limit Theorem Estimates and Confidence Intervals Data-Driven Models Bayesian Statistics Hierarchical Models Hypothesis Testing Bootstrap Introduction to Regression The Linear Model Framework Treatment Effect Models Generalized Linear Models Association Is Not Causation Multivariable Regression Working with Matrices in R Applied Linear Algebra Dimension Reduction Regularization Latent Factor Models Notation and Terminology Performance Metrics Conditional Expectations and Smoothing Resampling and Model Assessment Supervised Learning Methods Building Machine Learning Models Unsupervised Learning: Clustering

Biography

Rafael A. Irizarry is Professor and Chair of the Department of Data Science at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Applied Statistics at Harvard. His research focuses on Genomics and he has taught several Data Science courses.