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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 Jeff M

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Nov 26, 2022

Good refresher for me to fundamental concepts, and a good launch pad for embarking on a deeper knowledge of statistics.

By J P

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Sep 1, 2023

This course provides the basics for statistics. It would be helpful to get additional training on this topic in depth.

By Carlo

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Oct 23, 2022

Thank you for the free course. Will definitely comeback to this course to refresh my memory when comes to statistics.

By Kleber M

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Nov 9, 2023

I signed up for this course as a refresher course on some basic concepts, but I've learnt a lot more than I expected.

By Aaron C

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Oct 20, 2022

Great, intuitive course. Would reccomend anyone looking to study basic statistics at a high school or college level.

By Alexandra O

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Aug 20, 2022

I highly reccomend to take this course BEFORE taking any ML specialisaion. For me, many things looks differently now

By Basil

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Mar 30, 2022

Very useful course. In particular in understanding, surviorship bias and how it means a pandemic is now an endemic .

By Argo D C

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Sep 5, 2022

The instructor's explaine was great about statictics, this course helped me to remind my knowledge about statistics

By Pedro A R S

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Jun 14, 2023

Un muy interesante curso, base profundizar en los temas de la analítica de datos integrando otras diciplinas.

By ATHAR Z

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Dec 9, 2022

Such a nice course to understand the statistics and many more related to data visualization, interpretation etc.

By Vinod P

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Jan 16, 2022

Statistics has been introduced with minimal math, with real world examples, making the concepts easy to grasp.

By Armand K

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Jul 25, 2022

Comparing this course to the Hungarian ones, the basics explained much more better than at us. Thanks a lot.

By Aprameya S

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Jan 25, 2022

The course was very concisely presented, emphasizing key statistical techniques and several helpful examples.

By Meet K

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Aug 30, 2022

Course difficulty level was basic to intermediate. Intruction pace was perfect. Topics were well explained.

By SOUBHAGYA M

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Jan 24, 2025

The subject initially seems less, Once you enroll it's a lot of Information & healthy bites to Statistics.

By Alex S

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Jan 27, 2023

Interesting course, even though it is titled as introduction to statistic, what I learned is beyond that.

By Israel a

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Jun 14, 2022

I really learn alot in all aspect of the topic provided for me to learn and am happy about that.....cheer

By Abdul R

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Jan 19, 2025

I was that part of my life where I felt I was going for something big and proceeding to a big journey .

By Lê K H

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Aug 11, 2021

Help me gain basic knowledge of statistics. Lectures and examples of this course are easy to understand.

By Rasoul E

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Jan 11, 2024

pretty much technical course, Especially for those who want to lay a great foundation in data science.

By Martin O

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Jan 13, 2022

Very good and dense introduction to the main topics of statistics, with all the basics well explained.

By Zahid H K

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Jan 6, 2022

This is an excellent and practical course which deals in implementation of concepts through examples.

By Indranil D

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Oct 4, 2023

The course material should be accompanied with many more examples to better understand the subject

By Edyta M

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Apr 18, 2022

Really nice introduction for the begginers or reminder if you forgot things from your school years.

By Taichi o

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Aug 25, 2021

The whole course was very interesting and full of intellectual examples that all satisfied me much.