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Statistics and Hypothesis Testing
Learn fundamental skills to describe and analyze data with Python.
Watch Intro Video
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Getting Started
(03:02)
Getting started with Anaconda Notebooks
Course Overview and Learning Objectives
Descriptive Statistics
(27:18)
Samples, Populations, and Parameters
Mean, Median, and Mode
Variance and Standard Deviation
Exercise: Describe the Provided Data
Normal Distribution
(20:45)
Probability Density Function and Cumulative Density Function
Inverse Cumulative Density Function
Standard Normal Distribution and Z-Scores
Exercise: Calculate the Life of a Laptop Battery
Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Intervals
(22:38)
The Central Limit Theorem
Critical Z Values
Confidence Intervals
T-Distribution and Smaller Samples
Exercise: Confidence Interval Calculation
Hypothesis Testing
(25:37)
Tea Party Experiment and P-Values
Two-tailed Testing
One-tailed Testing
Dealing with Smaller Samples
Exercise: Help an Online Gaming Platform
P-Hacking and Big Data Concerns
(34:03)
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Data Mining and Simpson’s Paradox
P-Hacking
Data Bias
Exercise: Data Mining Gone Wild
Conclusion
(00:00)
Summary and Further Reading Resources
End of course survey