Statistics
- You can't prove anything with statistics, but it does give
you a degree of solidity in data analysis and prediction.
- A long introduction to statistics is beyond the scope of this
lecture, but it is the study of data.
- If you've got a 1,000,000,000 data points, what can you say
about it.
- With statistics you make assumptions, hopefully explicitly, and
then make you can make statements about the data.
- If you've got historical data, you can predict what's going
to happen.
- The prediction is with a degree of certainty.
- The prediction may not work if the assumptions do not hold.