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6 Spectacular Reasons You Must Master the Data Sciences in 2020

Smart Data Collective

Data Science is a field that extracts useful information from loads of structured and unstructured data using algorithms, statistics, and programming. The concept of data science was first introduced in 2001, but it started gaining popularity in 2010. Its primary focus is to use user-generated data to good use.

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Estimating the prevalence of rare events — theory and practice

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

But importance sampling in statistics is a variance reduction technique to improve the inference of the rate of rare events, and it seems natural to apply it to our prevalence estimation problem. 2] Lawrence Brown, Tony Cai, Anirban DasGupta (2001). Statistical Science. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 2010. [4]

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