Beginning Statistics: The Easy Way - You Got This

Learn the essential topics, concepts, and skills covered in most first semester college statistics courses.

Beginning Statistics: The Easy Way - You Got This

Learn the essential topics, concepts, and skills covered in most first semester college statistics courses.
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Students consider statistics to be among the toughest college courses with a reputation for creating confusion and frustration. It's like that sinking feeling in your stomach when you've spent hours studying, but you're shocked because the statistics test questions seem so hard. It's not your fault. You did everything you possibly could to study and prepare. Take a look a this ScienceDaily article that states: "Why don't we understand statistics. Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame.." ScienceDaily, 12 October 2018. Beginning Statistics - The Easy Way - You Got This! prevents confusion and frustration by giving you clear and practical explanations and examples for basic concepts and topics covered in most first-semester college statistics classes. You can finally relax and enjoy learning statistics. 

The course is ideal for college students enrolled in a basic statistics course Advanced statistics students need a refresher in basic concepts. Non-traditional students returning to higher education Senior high school students taking a basic statistics course Statistics are everywhere and are central to our lives and the decisions we make. But there's no need to spend hours pondering difficult statistical verbiage. This fun, "down to earth" course converts complex statistics into simple concepts using ordinary situations that you can quickly understand. You can easily apply knowledge you gain from this course to manage data on the job or personal information. This course simplifies first semester statistics topics by relating them to common and ordinary events that make them easy and fun. You'll enjoy lessons that you can relate to, use on the job, and apply to your daily life. This course features fun, dramatized and exciting lessons that help you learn to compute and apply statistics. Computers and calculators compute most statistical data; so this course covers only basic manual calculations. Each lesson emphasizes data interpretation and data analysis to help you apply what you learn to your profession and daily life.

Topics covered include:

  • Types of statistical data: How data fits into statistical categories for measuring and interpretation.
  • Descriptive statistics: Using statistics to describe and measure data.
  • Mean, median, mode, central tendency
  • Standard deviation, variance, range, dispersion
  • Inferential Statistics: Learning about large data collections by taking samples.
  • Random sampling
  • Stratified sampling
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Displaying Data: Creating charts and graphs to display, report, and explain data.
  • Histograms, pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, frequency tables
  • Interpreting data 3) Data analysis
  • Data Distributions: What does the shape of graphs tell us about the data.
  • Probability: The chance that events will or will not happen.
  • Correlation: The strength of straight line relationships between 2 data sets.

Author

Barbara Berry

Barbara Berry, MA, MS, APRN, has over 7 years of teaching undergraduate applied statistics at Kansas State University, Kansas, USA; and a decade of management experience in the public health sector. She has an MA in Experimental Psychology from Northeastern University, an MS in Applied Statistics from the University of Northern Colorado, and an...

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What's Included

Language: English
Level: Beginner
Skills: Sampling Data, Measuring Descriptive Statistics, Reporting Statistics, Interpreting Central Tendency
Age groups: 18+ years
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
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