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Dunno, at my college course we were taught that probability is about knowing the probabilistic properties of an experiment and predicting its outcomes, whereas
by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Dunno, at my college course we were taught that probability is about knowing the probabilistic properties of an experiment and predicting its outcomes, whereas statistic is about knowing the outcomes and predicting the probabilistic properties of the experiment
- kqr 4y agoThis is close to correct. Statistics (the old school kind) is just about computing summary metrics for large amounts of data. Probability is about deriving properties of a sample from the population, based on population parameters. Statistical inference (what is usually meant by "statistics" these days) is about figuring out what sort of population parameters could have produced the sample at hand -- i.e. probability but backwards.