Day 20: Independent Events

By: xkcd

Because we introduced the central limit theorem last post, it’s time to introduce another important concept. The idea of independent events, while this may seem intuitive, it is one of the assumptions we make in parametric statistics, another concept we will define, but for now let’s jump into independence.*

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September 8, 2019 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one | Tags: computer, Engineering, experiment, independence, Math, neuroscience, probability, science, statistical errors, statistics | Leave a comment