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Understand the process of drawing conclusions about populations or scientific truths from data
Describe variability, distributions, limits, and confidence intervals
Use p-values, confidence intervals, and permutation tests
Make informed data analysis decisions
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Statistical inference is the process of drawing conclusions about populations or scientific truths from data. There are many modes of performing inference including statistical modeling, data oriented strategies and explicit use of designs and randomization in analyses. Furthermore, there are broad theories (frequentists, Bayesian, likelihood, design based, …) and numerous complexities (missing data, observed and unobserved confounding, biases) for performing inference. A practitioner can often be left in a debilitating maze of techniques, philosophies and nuance. This course presents the fundamentals of inference in a practical approach for getting things done. After taking this course, students will understand the broad directions of statistical inference and use this information for making informed choices in analyzing data.
This week, we'll focus on the fundamentals including probability, random variables, expectations and more.
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We're going to tackle variability, distributions, limits, and confidence intervals.
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We will be taking a look at intervals, testing, and pvalues in this lesson.
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We will begin looking into power, bootstrapping, and permutation tests.
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Statistics was not, to put it mildly, my favorite subject in college. This class, however, managed to actually get me involved in the subject as it is tought with applicability in mind. Thank you.
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Excellent course. After completion, I really feel like I have a great grasp of basic inferential statistics and this course introduced ideas that I had not even considered before.
Reviewed on Oct 25, 2018
Course is compressed with lots of statistical concepts. Which is very good as most must know concepts are imparted. Lots of extra reading is required to gain all insights. Very good motivating start .
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