Statistics Foundations: The Basics

Learn to understand your data using basics of statistics, such as defining the middle, mean, and median of your data set; measuring the standard deviation; and finding outliers.

Introduction

• The beginning of your statistics journey

1. Data and Charts

• Introduction to data and charts
• Data and chart examples

2. The Middle

• The middle of your data set
• Basic data sets
• Special circumstances

3. Variability

• Introduction to variability
• Range
• Standard deviation
• Calculating standard deviation
• Big and small standard deviation
• Empirical rule
• Outliers

Conclusion

• Next steps