IID: Meaning and Interpretation for Beginners

Independent and Identically Distributed

Jae Kim
Towards Data Science
9 min readAug 19, 2023

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In statistics, data analysis, and machine learning topics, the concept of IID frequently appears as a fundamental assumption or condition. It stands for “independent and identically distributed”. An IID random variable or sequence is an important component of a statistical or machine models, also playing a role in time…

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