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Statistics for ML

Statistics is how you tell a real effect from noise: sampling, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and regression. Machine learning leans on it constantly, from judging whether one model truly beats another to spotting a biased sample. Most costly mistakes in applied ML are statistical errors, not coding errors.

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Key terms

SamplingConfidence intervalHypothesis testRegressionSignificance

Where you meet it in the real world

A/B tests, comparing models, survey analysis, evaluating LLM changes