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Simulation for Data Science with R

By : Matthias Templ
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Simulation for Data Science with R

By: Matthias Templ

Overview of this book

Data Science with R aims to teach you how to begin performing data science tasks by taking advantage of Rs powerful ecosystem of packages. R being the most widely used programming language when used with data science can be a powerful combination to solve complexities involved with varied data sets in the real world. The book will provide a computational and methodological framework for statistical simulation to the users. Through this book, you will get in grips with the software environment R. After getting to know the background of popular methods in the area of computational statistics, you will see some applications in R to better understand the methods as well as gaining experience of working with real-world data and real-world problems. This book helps uncover the large-scale patterns in complex systems where interdependencies and variation are critical. An effective simulation is driven by data generating processes that accurately reflect real physical populations. You will learn how to plan and structure a simulation project to aid in the decision-making process as well as the presentation of results. By the end of this book, you reader will get in touch with the software environment R. After getting background on popular methods in the area, you will see applications in R to better understand the methods as well as to gain experience when working on real-world data and real-world problems.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Simulation for Data Science with R
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Probability distributions


We take a small excursus to probability distributions, since they are used frequently in the book. The theoretical distributions are, both in descriptive and in mathematical statistics, of central importance:

  • To approximate functions, such as a description of empirically observed frequency distributions in descriptive statistics

  • The determination of probabilities for results of certain random experiments in mathematical statistics

Some important theoretical distributions are, for example, the Binomial distribution, the Poisson distribution, the hyper-geometrical distribution, the uniform distribution, the exponential distribution, the normal distribution, the distribution, and the t distribution.

Discrete probability distributions

Married or not married, in the Austrian population, defines already a discrete probability distribution. Discrete distributions are in general very important and we should take a closer look at them, since they are needed in the following...