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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....

Top reviews

OK

Nov 17, 2023

The course was incredibly informative. I am glad that I got the opportunity to study in a course on statistics from Stanford University itself. I thank the creators and participants of the course!

AB

May 23, 2023

The lectures were clear and thorough, with a good amount of examples. The quizzes were excellent, and I learned a lot from the feedback. One of the best Coursera courses I have ever taken!

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By Hannah R S S

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Aug 10, 2024

I think there should be some more practical questions to do before each test. I also sometimes struggled to follow certain examples, I don't know whether it would be better to start with new examples rather than carrying on examples in certain modules.

By Nick T

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Feb 9, 2023

Not enough explanation/teaching and the content is really boring. It's just the professor reading slides and not providing great examples. I find myself needing to use 3rd party content to supplement every lesson so far.

By Hanna D

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Nov 24, 2023

The course doesn't do a good job at explaining the core concepts well. I didn't find the extra videos relevant either. If you're curious about the basic concepts of statistics, just watch some youtube tutorials.

By Megan W

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Sep 20, 2021

This course was taught at a much higher level than I was expecting. Concepts were broad and vague. Would have loved to work on concepts in greater detail or with additional practice and application.

By Shivam R

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Mar 31, 2023

Course was well organized and the content was also too good. However, the course could include some more examples. Overall it was good to start our journey is machine learning and data science.

By Hameed M

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Mar 9, 2022

very good course. Cuts to the chase. I enjoyed it as the lecturer was clear in his explanations and also I think all the necessary and important statistical parameters were mentioned.

By Jiansheng N

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Jun 22, 2021

This is not an introduction to statistics, the instructor assumes students having some basic background in probabilities, distributions. However, the slides are very useful.

By Liz G

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Dec 22, 2023

This was a difficult course to understand. I felt like there needed to be more examples and practice problems. I'm still not 100% sure how to calculate probability.

By Annie B

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Nov 10, 2024

It's a good course as a refresher, not as an introduction or if you are starting to learn the topic. Even if you pay Coursera Plus, the certificate has a cost.

By Christopher R

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Sep 17, 2022

Extraordinarily boring videos; the professor has zero personality. Really made it hard to watch and be excited to do so.

By Nick L

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Oct 10, 2024

Great range of topics covered but needs to be greatly simplifed for it to truly be an 'introduction' course.

By Aisha M M

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Nov 6, 2023

while I believe challenges are a good thing, I think the course was too much for its 'beginner' label

By Arnold C

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Jul 26, 2021

Starts off as quite beginners-level, though the onslaught of formulas can be overwhelming.

By Hong J

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Dec 11, 2022

it was ok for a general background refresh. I was expected more solid knowledge.

By Rinku D

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Mar 6, 2022

overall this is good course for learning statistics for Data science.

By Vedant G

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May 10, 2022

Content is good but pace is extremely fast towards the later weeks.

By Maneth B

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Jan 21, 2025

Roughly goes through many topics. Can get familiar with concepts

By ishita b

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Aug 21, 2022

The course was good but there is a room to make it more good

By ahmed a m n

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Feb 18, 2022

need simplification of certain topics as anova p value

By Tomasz

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Dec 21, 2021

Quite ok but some concepts are not clearly introduced.

By Ifunanya o

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Nov 5, 2021

good course but should be given a free certificate

By TJ R

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Jul 8, 2022

It was difficult at times viewing the video's.

By Diego D

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May 29, 2024

some explenations can´t be done in 3 minutes

By Mahdi F M

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Mar 25, 2023

it was a bit too complicated for my taste.