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Role of statistics in the era of data science


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1 Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603 103, India, India
 

Statistics evolved as a science in an era when the amount of data available was small and efforts were on to extract maximum information from them. Are the techniques developed during those times relevant anymore in the era of data science? We will illustrate using examples that several statistical concepts developed over the last 150 years are as relevant in this era as they were then

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Analytics, big data, bias, data-science, regression, statistics.
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Rajeeva L. Karandikar
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603 103, India, India

Abstract


Statistics evolved as a science in an era when the amount of data available was small and efforts were on to extract maximum information from them. Are the techniques developed during those times relevant anymore in the era of data science? We will illustrate using examples that several statistical concepts developed over the last 150 years are as relevant in this era as they were then

Keywords


Analytics, big data, bias, data-science, regression, statistics.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv121%2Fi8%2F1016-1021