Education – Quant Knot

Advice for my Brother: How to think about Statistics

In the fall semester of 2020 I was well on my way through the Information Science and Data Science Program at the University of South Florida. At the same time my twin brother, Stuart, was also getting into some of the advanced classes of Mechanical Engineering, and had to take…

By Simon Liles February 9, 2021Data Science, Education

Data Science Education Statistics

Making sense of Bayes’ Theorem

So today I was trying to help out my twin brother with understanding a statistics problem involving Bayes' Theorem. Besides the fact that they always ask probability problems in the most confusing way possible, very few actually explain Bayes' Theorem very well. So here I attempt to provide some additional…

By Simon Liles September 24, 2020Data Science, Education, Statistics