Statistics for Data Science

摘要

Many years ago, I had the good fortune to benefit from my MS adviser's encouragement to pursue a PhD-and further benefit from his wide familiarity with many departments of statistics. I learned statistics departments varied in size (from tiny to large), emphasis (almost entirely theoretical, very applied, and somewhere in between), and placement of students (academe versus industry or government). And so it is with many fields: some departments of French include other languages, while others do not. Or some focus on 19th century literature versus existentialism. I suspect we will see the same diversity in data science programs.