Statistics is important to machine learning practitioners.
- Statistics is a prerequisite in most courses and books on applied machine learning.
- Statistical methods are used at each step in an applied machine learning project.
- Statistical learning is the applied statistics equivalent of predictive modeling in machine learning.
A machine learning practitioner cannot be e ective without an understanding of basic statistical concepts and statistics methods, and an e ective practitioner cannot excel without being aware of and leveraging the terminology and methods used in the sister field of statistical learning.
