Intro to Statistics
Offered By: Stanford University via Udacity
Course Description
Overview
Statistics is about extracting meaning from data. In this class, we will introduce techniques for visualizing relationships in data and systematic techniques for understanding the relationships using mathematics.
Syllabus
- Visualizing relationships in data
- Seeing relationships in data.,Making predictions based on data.,Simpson's paradox.
- Probability
- Introduction to Probability.,Bayes Rule.,Correlation vs. Causation.
- Estimation
- Maximum Likelihood Estimation.,Mean, Median, Mode.,Standard Deviation and Variance.
- Outliers and Normal Distribution.
- Outliers, Quartiles.,Binomial Distribution.,Manipulating Normal Distribution.
- Inference
- Confidence Intervals.,Hypothesis Testing.
- Regression
- Linear regression.,Correlation.
Taught by
Sebastian Thrun
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