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By Soumen MannaCategory Technical SkillsJuly 22, 2020

How can I solve any question on finding the probability of an event in a job interview / written test? (Part 2)

Properties of probability i) 0 ≤ P(A) ≤ 1. ii) P(ɸ) = 0, P(S) = 1. iii) For any two events A and B, P(AUB) = P(A) + P(B) – P(A∩B), where AUB is read as ‘A

By Soumen MannaCategory Technical SkillsOctober 24, 2019

What is the difference between conditional probability and probability?

In short, “Each conditional probability is a probability and the converse is also true.” The 1st part of the above statement is obvious but how is the converse true? To understand things better, let us first revisit

By Soumen MannaCategory Technical SkillsSeptember 27, 2019

How can I solve any question on finding the probability of an event in a job interview / written test? (Part 1)

Whenever you face probability questions, you find that the questions are very interesting but the answers are confusing. In many cases, you find that your intuition goes wrong and several times you find no clue how to

By Soumen MannaCategory Technical SkillsMay 20, 2019

Statistical Techniques for every Data Science learner

This is an introductory article about the statistical aspects of data science. In this article, I will give a general overview of data science problems and the statistical techniques required to solve them. Some of the terminologies