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Julia for Data Science

By : Anshul Joshi
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Book Image

Julia for Data Science

2 (1)
By: Anshul Joshi

Overview of this book

Julia is a fast and high performing language that's perfectly suited to data science with a mature package ecosystem and is now feature complete. It is a good tool for a data science practitioner. There was a famous post at Harvard Business Review that Data Scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century. (https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century). This book will help you get familiarised with Julia's rich ecosystem, which is continuously evolving, allowing you to stay on top of your game. This book contains the essentials of data science and gives a high-level overview of advanced statistics and techniques. You will dive in and will work on generating insights by performing inferential statistics, and will reveal hidden patterns and trends using data mining. This has the practical coverage of statistics and machine learning. You will develop knowledge to build statistical models and machine learning systems in Julia with attractive visualizations. You will then delve into the world of Deep learning in Julia and will understand the framework, Mocha.jl with which you can create artificial neural networks and implement deep learning. This book addresses the challenges of real-world data science problems, including data cleaning, data preparation, inferential statistics, statistical modeling, building high-performance machine learning systems and creating effective visualizations using Julia.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Julia for Data Science
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Confidence interval


This describes the amount of uncertainty associated with the unknown population parameter in the estimated range of values of the population.

Interpreting the confidence intervals

Suppose it is given that the population mean is greater than 100 and less than 300, with a confidence interval of 95%.

General perception is that the chance of the population mean falling between 100 and 300 is 95%. This is wrong, as the population mean is not a random variable but is constant and doesn't change, and its probability of falling in any specified range is 0 to 1.

The uncertainty level associated with a sampling method is described by the confidence level. Suppose to select different samples and for each of these samples to compute a different interval estimate we used the same sampling method. The true population parameter would be included in some of these interval estimates, but not in every one.

So, the 95% confidence level means that the population parameter is included in 95...