Statistics Every Programmer Needs

William Gao

Ph.D. candidate in Genetics at Case Western Reserve University.

WillGaoLab is my public learning archive for statistics, papers, books, and scientific learning.

Statistics Every Programmer Needs

This page is the first statistics resource in WillGaoLab. It will collect concise, practical notes on statistical ideas that programmers, data analysts, and computational researchers need often.

Planned Topics

• Descriptive statistics
• Probability distributions
• Sampling and uncertainty
• Confidence intervals
• Hypothesis testing
• Regression
• Multiple testing
• Experimental design
• Reproducible statistical workflows