Basic Principles of Statistical Inference
Data and computing revolutions in the 21st century The world is stochastic rather than deterministic Probability theory used to model stochastic events Statistical inference: Learning about what we do not observe (parameters) using what we observe (data) Without statistics:wildguess With statistics: principled guess 1 assumptions 2 formal ...
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