Designed for students with no prior statistics knowledge, this course will provide a foundation for further study in data science, data analytics, or machine learning. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, and discrete and continuous probability distributions. Assignments are conducted in Microsoft Excel (Windows or Mac versions). Designed to be taken with the follow-up courses, “Statistics and Data Analysis with Excel, Part 2" and "Statistics and Data Analysis with R". All three courses make up the specialization "Statistics and Applied Data Analysis."