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How much Statistics must I know to become a Data Scientist?

This is one of the most common questions

Here are the must-know Statistics concepts every Data Scientist should know:

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆

↗ Bayes' Theorem & conditional probability
↗ Permutations & combinations
↗ Card & die roll problem-solving

𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

↗ Mean, median, mode
↗ Standard deviation and variance
↗  Bernoulli's, Binomial, Normal, Uniform, Exponential distributions

𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀

↗ A/B experimentation
↗ T-test, Z-test, Chi-squared tests
↗ Type 1 & 2 errors
↗ Sampling techniques & biases
↗ Confidence intervals & p-values
↗ Central Limit Theorem
↗ Causal inference techniques

𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

↗ Logistic & Linear regression
↗ Decision trees & random forests
↗ Clustering models
↗ Feature engineering
↗ Feature selection methods
↗ Model testing & validation
↗ Time series analysis

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