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Jake Vanderplas - Statistics for Hackers - PyCon 2016.mp4
PyCon 2016

Jake Vanderplas's PyCon 2016 talk shows how sampling-based methods such as simulation, shuffling and bootstrapping make statistics intuitive. His pitch is that if you can write a for-loop, you can do statistics.
It is recommended to programmers who want to learn statistics through simulation rather than memorized formulas.
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