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Probability and statistics for programmers is a textbook for a new kind of introductory. Downey received in 1989 his bs and in 1990 his ma, both in civil engineering from the massachusetts institute of technology, and his phd in computer science from the university of california at berkeley in 1997 he started his career as research fellow in the san diego supercomputer center in 1995. Professor downey is very clear that without knowing python you will struggle with the examples. But both books are available online, so i dont feel too bad. He has taught computer science at wellesley college, colby college and u. Read on oreilly online learning with a 10day trial start your free trial now buy on amazon. Think stats, 2nd edition exploratory data analysis. Code issues 53 pull requests 10 actions projects 0 security insights. I am a professor of computer science at olin college in needham ma, and the author of think python, think bayes, think stats and other books related to computer science and data science i keep a portfolio of my professional activities in this github repository several of my books are published by oreilly media and all are available under free licenses from green tea press.
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