Probability & stats

In 2003, a team of thieves walked into the Antwerp Diamond Centre and walked out with over €100 million in gems. In this book, you are on the team.

Every concept in probability and statistics is woven into the heist. You learn measures of central tendency because you need to analyse the weight distribution of the diamonds. You learn hypothesis testing because you need to decide whether to trust an accomplice. You learn Bayes' theorem because the police are updating their priors and you need to stay one step ahead.

By the end you will build a Naive Bayes classifier, understand Markov chains, and run a Metropolis Hastings sampler. You will also know more about the Antwerp diamond trade than any data scientist probably should.