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About the Course

Stanford's "Introduction to Statistics" teaches you statistical thinking concepts that are essential for learning from data and communicating insights. By the end of the course, you will be able to perform exploratory data analysis, understand key principles of sampling, and select appropriate tests of significance for multiple contexts. You will gain the foundational skills that prepare you to pursue more advanced topics in statistical thinking and machine learning. Topics include Descriptive Statistics, Sampling and Randomized Controlled Experiments, Probability, Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem, Regression, Common Tests of Significance, Resampling, Multiple Comparisons....

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AA

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Gives all the necessary and basic skills needed for a potential college level statistics course. Videos and lessons are a little hard to follow through major jumps in topics. 4/5 stars.

JM

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Gives a great overview of every important topic in statistics. However, lots of things aren't explained thoroughly. I had to use other websites to gain a sufficient understanding of lots of material.

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By Tanguy N

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May 17, 2022

Very good

By Legendary W

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Feb 7, 2023

great

By Mhamed B

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Mar 13, 2023

so so

By Muaz N

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Jun 24, 2022

good

By Nicholas F

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Aug 11, 2024

This course was extremely frustrating for me. While I do not have a background in statistics or data science, I do have two Bachelor's degrees and took the course as a prerequisite for a Doctoral program. The marketing of this course is misleading - the title should not be "Introduction to Statistics". It would be more appropriate to title this course "Advanced statistical concepts" as the content was in fact advanced, the pace rapid, and the descriptive terminology complex. The professor is clearly brilliant in his field, however he does not deliver the material in a digestible manner for those without a background in statistics. Do not take this course if you are looking for a refresher on stats. I gave two stars because the user interface is great.

By Brittany R

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Mar 15, 2022

This course basically summarizes different components of statistics. The professor jumped straight into examples to explain concepts but didn't explain important terms and how he labeled parts of the equations before going into an example. I felt like there weren't explanations that would help better the understanding. I had to use outside resources to better understand what was being taught.

By Necip F E

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Apr 13, 2022

It teaches you what those tools do, but does not teach you how and why. I think this is caused by not including the calculus side of the subject. At the end of the day, you will know what those tools do, but you won't understand completely.

By Allan T

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May 6, 2022

Not much effort was put into designing this course. It's simply the instructor talking over PowerPoint slides and scribbling on them. A good textbook would provide a better introduction in a more engaging way.

By Nazmul I

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Feb 9, 2022

I am happy to complete the courses, I learned a lot of empirical rules and terms, and helps me in my present time, but if certificates are given without cost, it will be beneficial for me.

By DHINAKARAN.S

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Jul 17, 2022

You Said free course..after completed You say purchase the certificate....haa..haaa...sema comedy.........manufacturing defect in your born body

By Joao M P

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Jan 15, 2022

The beginning of the course is very well explained, but in the more detailed parts that are some chapters that lack explanations

By LUCA I

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May 9, 2023

Poor in examples, extra material is need to understannd a lot of concepts tought in this course.

Not satisfied at all

By Gao M

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Jul 17, 2022

concept not well explained. can only be used as re-cap course when already have good understanding on the concept

By javier v m

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Mar 29, 2024

First 4 weeks of good material Last 4 weeks Welcome to Hell

By PRINN S

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Jan 22, 2023

very hard to follow. slow speak but very fast pace

By Prashanth P

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Jun 17, 2023

thanks to corsera providing gate experience

By Charan K

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Jul 26, 2024

I joined this course as a part of my data science journey. You told me this is a free certificate course but after completing the course You are asking to pay money for the certificate. How fair is it? I'm not getting.

By Haytham A

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Aug 10, 2023

I'm from developing countries particularly from Yemen where the war have destroyed everything. I hope that you will give me the certificate for this course for granted.

By Garrett S

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Jun 15, 2024

This course is horrible. Very little explanation provided. I guess for the price it's... better than nothing, but you get what you pay for... which is nothing.

By Anthony A

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Aug 19, 2024

Quiz topics not covered in lectures! A full 1.5 minutes to explain standard deviation -- could you have spared some more time?

By Diane D V

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May 14, 2022

The quiz questions are not worked well and it makes it a bit difficutl to understand what is being asked.

By Geethika P

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Jul 22, 2024

I didn't like this course as it is not related to my specialisation. I want to change my course.

By Abdul B

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Nov 19, 2022

Literally slow and boring, Inadequate of definitions and examples

By Laura K

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Sep 29, 2023

Videos play overlapping making the content unusable.

By Lois J

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May 15, 2024

poor explanation and study material