Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear

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.

• By This Professor
• 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