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Introduction to Computational Statistics for Data Scientists Specialization
Practical Bayesian Inference. A conceptual understanding of the techniques and the tools used to perform scalable Bayesian inference in practice with PyMC3.
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The basics of Bayesian modeling and inference.
A conceptual understanding of the techniques used to perform Bayesian inference in practice.
Learn how to use PyMC3 to solve real-world problems.
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This specialization should take about 3 months to complete
Some experience with Data Science using the PyData Stack of NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn
The courses should ideally be taken in the following order
Iintroduction to Probability and Distributions
Bayesian Inference with MCMC
Iintroduction to PyMC3 with applications