/statistics_programs

A repository of statistics-related items.

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Statistics programs

A repository of programs and notebooks of critical statistical concepts to serve as a source of reference in the development and application of statistical methods to scientific questions, relevant to my current research in computational biology.

  • Inductive proof for Boole's inequality
  • Bias-variance tradeoff
  • Simulations to demonstrate Lindley's paradox, contrasting Bayesian and Frequentist schools
  • Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm implementation to resolve mixtures of distributions
  • Gradient descent to find the minimum of a multivariate function
  • Proof of Markov's and Chebyshev's inequalities
  • Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) and k-means clusering to resolve mixtures of simulated distributions
  • Monte carlo method for estimating $\pi$