I'm about to enroll for next quarter's classes, and I'm not sure which statistics classes would be the most relevant for a career in natural language processing (unfortunately, the stats course on pattern recognition and machine learning has been cancelled). Any advice? Thank you in advance.
EDIT: Can someone weigh in on which would be more helpful for NLP?
- Intro to Mathematical Statistics (survey sampling, estimation, testing, data summary, one- and two-sample problems) or
- Statistics for Engineers (sampling distributions, statistical estimation (including maximum likelihood estimation), statistical intervals, and hypothesis testing)
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