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Making Decisions Based on Data
Estimated time
Approx. 2 Months
Skill level
Beginner
Prerequisites
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About this course
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.
What you will learn
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.
Prerequisites and requirements
This course does not require any previous knowledge of statistics. Basic familiarity with algebra such as knowing how to compute the mean, median and mode of a set of numbers will be helpful.
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Why take this course?
This course will cover visualization, probability, regression and other topics that will help you learn the basic methods of understanding data with statistics.
Learn with the best.
Sebastian Thrun
Instructor