Introduction to Statistics for Data Analysts

A practical guide to recognizing, understanding, and managing uncertainty in data 

2 hours
26 lessons
370 xp

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An outline of this training course  

Real world data is frequently ambiguous, and often it’s not obvious whether a visible trend represents an important phenomenon or just random noise. 

In this course, we build practical understanding of the most important statistical tools used to differentiate the one from the other, whether the data is quantitative or categorical. Very little theory is presented; rather, the focus is on selecting appropriate tools and correctly interpreting the results.

The inability to recognize and manage uncertainty is a common cause of erroneous conclusions in data analysis. Being able to avoid such errors in one's own practice and to recognize them in others' is an essential skill for anyone working with data.

What are needed to take this course  

Participants of this course must have basic knowledge and understanding of variable types, descriptive and inferential statistics. No other advanced preparation is needed to take this course.

Although the demonstrations in the course are done in R, they are intended to be generalizable to Python or any other statistical software you choose to use.  Knowledge of R is not a prerequisite for taking this course.

Who is this course for

Anyone working with data and attempting to draw constructive, generalizable conclusions from data 

Details of what you will learn during this course  

By the end of the course, learners will: 

  • Have strong intuition into variability and bias in real-world sample data 
  • Understand the fundamental logic of statistical inference  
  • Possess a toolkit of essential techniques for analyzing categorical and quantitative variables  
  • Recognize statistical abuse and be able to avoid it in practice 
  • Be prepared to quickly learn any of the various specialized inference techniques they might encounter in their future work with data 

What you get with the course

  • An hour and a half of self-paced video training 
  • Resource pack that includes data source files and R scripts 
  • One final assessment 

Program Level  

Intermediate

Field(s) of Study

Statistics

Instruction Delivery Method

QAS Self-study


***This course was last updated in January 2023


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Curriculum
1

Course Overview


2

Resources


3

Introduction


4

Confidence Intervals


5

Significance Testing


6

Statistical Use Misuse and Abuse


7

Proportions


8

Goodness of Fit


9

Sample Size and Power


10

Course Wrap Up


11

Quiz


12

Your Feedback


13

Certification


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Andrew Gard

Enterprise DNA Expert

  • Creator of the popular YouTube channel, Equitable Equations, which teaches practical statistics, data science, and R programming 
  • Professor of mathematics and computer science at Lake Forest College, located near Chicago, USA 
  • Author of the R package fqar, which facilitates the analysis of large floristic quality data sets 
  • PhD in mathematics from The Ohio State University 
  • Area of specialization: data analysis with R. I integrate both domain expertise and technical data science to provide deep answers to real-world data questions while respecting and quantifying the uncertainty inherent in the data. 

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