Fundamentals of Statistics
This E-Learning Statistics Course is an important and useful tool for making decisions in most areas of activity, including in your professional life. Unfortunately, statistics is regarded as a difficult and complex subject, and many students shy away from it. Statistics for Beginners transforms the daunting world of statistics into a usable and useful tool. This course is designed as an online basic statistics course, presented in a simple and clear format that makes statistics and its related theories easy to understand. A concluding quiz will examine your comprehension at the end of each lesson.
Topic Outline:
1. Introduction
Practical Terms | Processing Crude Data | The Statistical Theory
2. Data Presentation
The Crude Data | Graphic Presentation | Histogram
3. Measures
What Is A Measure? | The Mode | The Average | The Median | The Standard Deviation
4. Probability
Probability vs. Reality | Concepts of probability | Complementary Events | Mutually Exclusive Events | Expectation | Standard Deviation – A Measure of Dispersal
5. Normal Distribution
The Normal Probability Distribution | The Normal Curve | Characteristics Of The Normal Distribution | Different Types Of Bell-Shaped Curve | Calculating Probabilities | Standardization
Course Features
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Objectives
- To introduce students to the fundamental concepts and methods of statistics, focusing on descriptive statistics, elementary probability and random variables.
- To approach probability and statistics through real-world examples, utilizing data and events common and meaningful to the students, including current events, social issues and culturally relevant topics.
- To describe the measures used in statistics, including mode, average, median and standard deviation, and their implementation in statistical models.
- To provide understanding of the Normal Probability Distribution and the Normal (Bell) Curve, including calculating probabilities and working with standardization techniques.
