Preface

Statistics is a discipline of study used for applying analytical methods to answer questions and solve problems using data, in both academic and industry settings. Many methods have been around for centuries, while others are much more recent. Statistical analysis and results are fairly straightforward for presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences. Furthermore, producing results with statistical analysis does not necessarily require large amounts of data or compute resources and can be done fairly quickly, especially when using programming languages such as Python, which is moderately easy to work with and implement.

While artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced machine learning (ML) tools have become more prominent ...

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