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This chapter discusses probability and statistics and includes a discussion on discrete and continuous random variables; probability distributions; sample spaces; sampling; the abuse of statistics; variance and standard deviation; and hypothesis testing.
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The random sample leads to predictions for the entire population that may be inaccurate. For example, consider the opinion polls on the 2016 British Referendum on EU membership and the 2016 presidential election in the United States.
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Ross SM (1987) Introduction to probability and statistics for engineers and scientists. Wiley Publications, New York
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O’Regan, G. (2020). Probability and Statistics. In: Mathematics in Computing. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34209-8_25
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