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Introduction to Statistics

Stanford's course on statistical thinking: descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, regression and hypothesis tests.

Stanford Online beginner Free to enrol; certificate paid

What you'll learn

  • Summarise and explore data
  • Understand sampling, probability and regression
  • Interpret confidence intervals and tests

About this course

Teaches the statistical concepts needed to learn from data and communicate insights — exploring data, sampling and probability, regression, confidence intervals and significance tests — with an emphasis on thinking rather than formulas.

glitchdata links to this course; its content, schedule and pricing are set by Stanford Online.

Where to take it

This course is run by Stanford Online. glitchdata describes it and links to it, but doesn't host its lessons — you take it on their site, under their terms.

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