Course description
Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics
This statistics and data analysis course will pave the statistical foundation for our discussion on data science.
You will learn how data scientists exercise statistical thinking in designing data collection, derive insights from visualizing data, obtain supporting evidence for data-based decisions and construct models for predicting future trends from data.
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Who should attend?
Prerequisites
High School Math. Some exposure to computer programming.
Training content
Introduction to Data Science
Statistical Thinking
- Examples of Statistical Thinking
- Numerical Data, Summary Statistics
- From Population to Sampled Data
- Different Types of Biases
- Introduction to Probability
- Introduction to Statistical Inference
Statistical Thinking 2
- Association and Dependence
- Association and Causation
- Conditional Probability and Bayes Rule
- Simpsons Paradox, Confounding
- Introduction to Linear Regression
- Special Regression Models
Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization
- Goals of statistical graphics and data visualization
- Graphs of Data
- Graphs of Fitted Models
- Graphs to Check Fitted Models
- What makes a good graph?
- Principles of graphics
Introduction to Bayesian Modeling
- Bayesian inference: combining models and data in a forecasting problem
- Bayesian hierarchical modeling for studying public opinion
- Bayesian modeling for Big Data
Course delivery details
This course is offered through Colgate University, a partner institute of EdX.
7-10 hours per week
Costs
- Verified Track -$99
- Audit Track - Free
Certification / Credits
What you'll learn
- Data collection, analysis and inference
- Data classification to identify key traits and customers
- Conditional Probability-How to judge the probability of an event, based on certain conditions
- How to use Bayesian modeling and inference for forecasting and studying public opinion
- Basics of Linear Regression
- Data Visualization: How to create use data to create compelling graphics
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