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Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear

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Learn how to understand statistical information and the role it plays in everything from political polls to stock performances in this course taught by a professor of Mathematics.

Syllabus

  • 01: Describing Data and Inferring Meaning
  • 02: Data and Distributions-Getting the Picture
  • 03: Inference-How Close? How Confident?
  • 04: Describing Dispersion or Measuring Spread
  • 05: Models of Distributions-Shapely Families
  • 06: The Bell Curve
  • 07: Correlation and Regression-Moving Together
  • 08: Probability-Workhorse for Inference
  • 09: Samples-The Few, The Chosen
  • 10: Hypothesis Testing-Innocent Until
  • 11: Confidence Intervals-How Close? How Sure?
  • 12: Design of Experiments-Thinking Ahead
  • 13: Law-You're the Jury
  • 14: Democracy and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
  • 15: Election Problems and Engine Failure
  • 16: Sports-Who's Best of All Time?
  • 17: Risk-War and Insurance
  • 18: Real Estate-Accounting for Value
  • 19: Misleading, Distorting, and Lying
  • 20: Social Science-Parsing Personalities
  • 21: Quack Medicine, Good Hospitals, and Dieting
  • 22: Economics- “One” Way to Find Fraud
  • 23: Science-Mendel's Too-Good Peas
  • 24: Statistics Everywhere
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Michael Starbird

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