Statistics

NOTE: This course has been divided into two courses: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. If you are new to statistics, we recommend taking these courses instead.We live in a time of unprecedented access to information...data. Whether researching the best school, job, or relationship, the Internet has thrown open the doors to vast pools of data. Statistics are simply objective and systematic methods for describing and interpreting information so that you may make the most informed decisions about life.Why Take This Course?The applications of statistics to everyday lifeMethods for acquiring data through observation and experimentationTo organize and describe quantitative and categorical forms of dataAnticipating patterns using basic probability and samplingStatistical inference through estimation and hypothesis testingCorrelation and simple regressionWays of describing the strength of relationships between variables