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This chapter talks about the elementary concepts of probability and statistics that are needed to better comprehend this book. This appendix covers topics like basic probability, conditional probability, Bayes’ Theorem and various distributions like normal distribution (also called Gaussian distribution), Bernoulli distribution, Poisson distribution and binomial distribution.
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Nath, V., Levinson, S.E. (2014). Overview of Probability and Statistics. In: Autonomous Military Robotics. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05606-7_2
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