Statistics 101

Split into five modules, this is a beginner's course covering the fundamentals of statistics. Start with mean, mode, and median. Then learn about standard deviation using examples from basketball. Learn about probability with dice. Learn what it means to group data by categorical variables, and how you can transform your data into appropriate graphs and charts.In the final module, using an open dataset, learn whether good looking professors indeed get better teaching evalutions.This course is taught using SPSS Statistics. No prior experience necesssary. A free trial is available through this course, available here: SPSS Statistics (Free Trial).

Module 1 - Welcome to Statistics!

• Welcome to Statistics
• Data visualization
• All about data
• SPSS Statistics
• SPSS Statistics in 5 minutes
• Lab exercises

Module 2 - Basic Statistics

• Types of data
• Measures of dispersion
• Mean, median, mode
• Statistics by data type
• Probability
• Lab exercises

Module 3 - Summarizing data

• Statistics by groups
• Visualization of group statistics
• Pivoting
• Cross-tabulations
• Correlation
• Lab exercises

Module 4- Data Visualization

• Visualization fundamentals
• Descriptive and statistical charts
• Scatterplots
• Statistical charts
• Time series charts
• Lab exercises

Module 5 - Does Beauty Pay?

• Does Beauty Pay?
• Weighted means, standard deviations
• Data wrangling
• Descriptive Statistics
• Reproducibility with syntax in SPSS Statistics
• Lab exercises