MISSION 59

Probability distributions

This mission will teach you relational database concepts that is essential to the workflow of every data scientist.

Objectives

  • Learn the basics of probability distribution
  • Understand the probability of combinations of events using the binomial distribution
  • How the normal distribution works

Mission Outline

1. The dataset
2. Binomial distributions
3. Bike sharing distribution
4. Computing the distribution
5. Plotting the distribution
6. Simplifying the computation
7. How to think about a probability distribution
8. Computing the mean of a probability distribution
9. Computing the standard deviation
10. A different plot
11. The normal distribution
12. Cumulative density function
13. Calculating z-scores
14. Faster way to calculate likelihood
15. Takeaways

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Course Info:

Probability and Statistics in Python: Intermediate

Intermediate

The median completion time for this course is 6.49 hours. ​View Details​​​

This course requires a Basic subscription. It includes six missions, and one guided project. This course is 17th course in the Data Analyst in Python path and Data Scientist in Python path

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