Statistical Data Analytics

Part I Background: Introductory Statistical Analytics 1

1 Data analytics and data mining 3

1.1 Knowledge discovery: finding structure in data 3

1.2 Data quality versus data quantity 5

1.3 Statistical modeling versus statistical description 7

2 Basic probability and statistical distributions 10

2.1 Concepts in probability 10

2.1.1 Probability rules 11

2.1.2 Random variables and probabi...