Descriptive Statistics Courses and Certifications

EDUCBA

Analyze Data Using Essential Statistics for Analytics

Build a statistical foundation for analytics: work with variables and measurement scales, create histograms, scatter plots and box plots in Excel and R, and apply sampling methods.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Working with charts, graphs and tables

15 ratings at OpenLearn

When you come across information represented in charts, graphs and tables, you'll need to know how to interpret this information. This free course, Working with charts, graphs and tables, will help...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Exploring data: Graphs and numerical summaries

8 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Exploring data: graphs and numerical summaries, will introduce you to a number of ways of representing data graphically and of summarising data numerically. You will learn the ...

• OpenLearn
• 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

4 ratings at OpenLearn

This free course, Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables, is concerned with two main topics. In Section 1, you will learn about another kind of graphical display, the boxplot. A boxplot is a fairly...

• OpenLearn
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Prices, location and spread

1 rating at OpenLearn

The free course, Prices, location and spread, explores aspects of the question Are people getting better or worse off? It covers statistical measures characterising the location of a batch of data ...

• OpenLearn
• 18 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Basic Statistics

13 ratings

Learn to compute and interpret means, standard deviations, Pearson's r and OLS regression, then work through probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals and significance tests.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Learn Statistics with Python

86 ratings at Codecademy

Learn how to calculate and interpret several descriptive statistics using the Python library NumPy.

• Codecademy
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Learn when to use mean, median, or mode and calculate each manually or with Python using real-world datasets.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Learn to calculate, interpret, and report variance and standard deviation, including what low and high values reveal about datasets.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Statistics: Boxplots

23 ratings at Codecademy

Learn to create and interpret boxplots using quartiles, quantiles, and interquartile range to describe datasets.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Statistics: Histograms

19 ratings at Codecademy

Learn to create, interpret, and describe histograms by analyzing distributions through bins, center, shape, spread, and outliers.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Learn to use quartiles, quantiles, and the interquartile range to describe how values are distributed across a dataset.

• Codecademy
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Introductory Statistics : Analyzing Data Using Graphs and Statistics

This course teaches basic statistical concepts andexplores many compelling applications of statistical methodsusing real-life applications of Statistics.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Data Analysis for Business: Foundations

Every day business managers have to make decisions. In this course you will learn procedures and methods that can help make better decisions, based on descriptive statistics and data analysis. Using S

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Statistical Methods in Geography (Practical)

Builds foundational statistical skills for organizing, analyzing, and interpreting spatial and temporal data in geographical studies.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course