Introductory statistics Part1: Descriptive Statistics

Master descriptive statistics and real-world data analysis using EXCEL. Ideal for students and professionals seeking practical applications of statistical concepts.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about mastering statistics with a focus on descriptive stats using EXCEL. You'll get to analyze real-world data at your own pace and gain hands-on skills that are super useful for students and professionals alike. It's clear, fun, and totally practical!

Key Points

  • Learn statistics at your own pace.
  • Use real-world data sets in EXCEL.
  • Understand descriptive statistics concepts.
  • Work through solved problems and quizzes.
  • Course takes about three hours to complete.

Learning Outcomes

  • Be able to summarize and analyze data using descriptive statistics.
  • Compute measures of center, spread, and relative positions.
  • Apply the empirical rule for data analysis.
  • Analyze data with real-world applications in EXCEL.
  • Feel confident in solving statistical problems on your own.

About This Course

Learn the concepts, calculations and applications of statistics at your own pace and comfort.

The course was updated recently to include a Real Word Applications section using EXCEL to analyze descriptive statistics data.
 I am using hands on REAL WORLD data sets in EXCEL to illustrate how to analyze data in the various concepts that are covered.
Even if you never used EXCEL before, you will be able to follow my steps to load the data and select the appropriate tabs to easily analyze your data.
This section is very handy for professionals and college students who need to analyze data and make interpretations.

This course presents sound college level material about descriptive statistics. It is intended for college students and professionals interested in learning and applying the concepts of descriptive statistics. 

The course is presented in a way that helps students to understand and be able to also apply the concepts the concepts themselves and to succeed.
All the topics are treated extensively with a wealth of solved problems to help the students understand how to pratically solve similar problems.

Descriptive statistics is one area of statistical applications that uses numerical and graphical techniques to summarize the data, to look for patterns and to present the information in a useful and convenient way.

Detailed and fully solved exercises are provided in the videos with great comments to help students understand the material. In addition, a wealth of quizzes and a test is provided at the end of the course for students who want to test their mastery of the material.
The course will require around  three hours to complete. A test is available to allow the student to demonstrate a mastery of the subject matter.

  • By the end of this course you will be knowledgeable in using descriptive statistical analysis techniques to summarize and analyze the data

  • By the end of this course you will be able to compute measures of center of the data, measures of spread, measures of relative positions

  • By the end of this course, you will know how to use the empirical rule for analyzing data

Course Curriculum

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Instructor

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Luc Zio

I  have over 20 years of work experience in the field of statistics as an Applied Statistician. For the last  twelve years, I have also  been teaching undergraduate college level statistics courses at St Petersburg College,Florida, USA.As a Data scientist, my interests lie in applying Data science techniques (Exploratory Data Analyses, Statistical analyses and other Machine Learning) to real world...

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4.9 course rating
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Lisa K.
5.0
3 years ago

It was a good refresher course.

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Carter L. D.
5.0
4 years ago

Yes, it is a good match for me. I plan to repeat it taking more time to do all the caculations and then take the test as advised.

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Michael G.
5.0
4 years ago

This is an excellent Course. I have learned a lot.

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Jack M.
2.0
5 years ago

Monotonus speaking voices, jumps over info, boring so far.

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ui-avatar of Enakshi Dutta
Enakshi D.
4.0
5 years ago

would have wanted more questions

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Benjamin S.
5.0
5 years ago

The instructor takes you step by step...and breaks large amount of information into very small and easy to understand pieces...

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Geo D.
4.5
6 years ago

I am grateful for the measured, patient lectures that are letting me build my statistical vocabulary.

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ui-avatar of Hylan Farmer
Hylan F.
4.5
6 years ago

Concise, straightforward and easy to understand so far.

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Semantics J. K. J.
4.0
7 years ago

It’s a good course and instructor is good as well

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ui-avatar of Viplava Reddy
Viplava R.
4.0
7 years ago

its really good for beginners like me. Basic terms are explained very well.

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