Track 10 · Lesson 2 of 12
math, random and statistics
Calculate with the math module, generate reproducible random values with seeds, and summarise data with statistics.
You will be able to
- Use math functions such as sqrt, hypot, floor, ceil, isclose, prod and comb
- Generate random numbers, choices and samples, and make them reproducible with a seed
- Use a separate random.Random(seed) generator so one part of a program cannot disturb another
- Summarise numbers with statistics.mean, median, mode, stdev and pstdev, and handle data that is too small
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