A STUDY ON THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR DATA SCIENCE IN THE FIELD OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Data Science as a scientific discipline is influenced by informatics, computer science, mathematics, operations research, and statistics as well as the applied sciences. Many research papers have come across that probability and statistics are the crucial prerequisites for data science. Having a good understanding of these two aspects would not only support with the concepts but will also help to attain of becoming a data science professional. This paper discusses the basics of probability and statistics in the context of data science with some advanced concepts.