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It's not easy to learn statistics without calculus.
by sobriquet9 5y ago
It's not easy to learn statistics without calculus.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoBasic level doesn't need calc
- marcosdumay 5y agoAny part of statistics is completely dependent on calculus. You don't get to choose how features are distributed over the set of possible samples. It's always some scary looking function without exact solutions. But you don't need to teach people all the fundamentals of calculus before they can apply it. Definitions and a small set of pre-made answers are enough to start using it and focusing on the statistics. When (and if) those people decide to learn it more in depth, they can go back to calculus fundamentals, and will have an easier time doing so, because they will know why those things exist.
- ozim 5y agoI guess that parent poster was thinking about probability and mixed it up with statistics. If yes, then I agree with him. People should have more probability lessons at school than trigonometry or calculus.
- sobriquet9 5y agoBasic probability (coin flipping, events over trials) by itself is just as useless as basic trigonometry. It only becomes useful as you move from simple combinatorics to continuous distributions, at which point you need differentiation and integration to switch between CDF and PDF. Much in the same way trigonometry becomes useful in physics once you need to deal with vectors and waves.