Statistics
About this Course
NOTE: This course has been divided into two courses: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. If you are new to statistics, we recommend taking these courses instead.
We live in a time of unprecedented access to information...data. Whether researching the best school, job, or relationship, the Internet has thrown open the doors to vast pools of data. Statistics are simply objective and systematic methods for describing and interpreting information so that you may …
Statistics
About this Course
NOTE: This course has been divided into two courses: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. If you are new to statistics, we recommend taking these courses instead.
We live in a time of unprecedented access to information...data. Whether researching the best school, job, or relationship, the Internet has thrown open the doors to vast pools of data. Statistics are simply objective and systematic methods for describing and interpreting information so that you may make the most informed decisions about life.
We live in a time of unprecedented access to information. You’ll learn how to use statistics to interpret that information and make decisions.
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- The applications of statistics to everyday life
- Methods for acquiring data through observation and experimentation
- To organize and describe quantitative and categorical forms of data
- Anticipating patterns using basic probability and sampling
- Statistical inference through estimation and hypothesis testing
- Correlation and simple regression
- Ways of describing the strength of relationships between variables
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lesson 1
Introduction to Statistics and Methods
Intro to statistical research methods
Frequency Distributions & Visualizing data
lesson 2
Describing Data
Central Tendency
Variability
lesson 3
Normal Distribution Analysis
Standardized Scores (z-scores)
Probability and the Normal Distribution
Sampling Distributions
lesson 4
Foundations of Inferential Statistics
Estimation
Hypothesis Testing
lesson 5
Comparing Means
t-tests
One-way ANOVA
lesson 6
Correlation, Regression, and Non-Parametrics
Correlation
Regression
Chi-Squared Tests
