What Will You Learn?

Statistics are all around us, from marketing to sales to healthcare. The ability to collect, analyze, and draw conclusions from data is not only extremely valuable, but it is also becoming commonplace to expect roles that are not traditionally analytical to understand the fundamental concepts of statistics. This course will equip you with the necessary skills to feel confident in working with analyzing data to draw insights. You'll be introduced to common methods used for summarizing and describing data, learn how probability can be applied to commercial scenarios, and discover how experiments are conducted to understand relationships and patterns. You'll work with real-world datasets including crime data in London, England, and sales data from an online retail company!

About This Course

About This Course

Provider: Datacamp
Format: Online
Duration: 4 hours total to complete [Approx.]
Target Audience: Beginner
Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, You'll be introduced to common methods used for summarizing and describing data, learn how probability can be applied to commercial scenarios. 
Course Prerequisites: NA
Assessment and Certification: NA
Instructor: George Boorman
Key Topics: Understand the fundamental concepts of statistics, analyze data to draw insights, and learn how probability can be applied to commercial scenarios.
Topic Covered: 
- What are statistics
- Summary statistics
- Including mean, median, and standard deviation
- critical thinking skills
- Probability and distributions
- Discrete and continuous probability distributions
- More Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem
- Correlation and Hypothesis Testing