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Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1 – Introduction to Data Science
Week 2 – Statistical Thinking
- Examples of Statistical Thinking
- Numerical Data, Summary Statistics
- From Population to Sampled Data
- Different Types of Biases
- Introduction to Probability
- Introduction to Statistical Inference
Week 3 – Statistical Thinking 2
- Association and Dependence
- Association and Causation
- Conditional Probability and Bayes Rule
- Simpsons Paradox, Confounding
- Introduction to Linear Regression
- Special Regression Models
Week 4 – Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization
- Goals of statistical graphics and data visualization
- Graphs of Data
- Graphs of Fitted Models
- Graphs to Check Fitted Models
- What makes a good graph?
- Principles of graphics
Week 5 – Introduction to Bayesian Modeling
- Bayesian inference: combining models and data in a forecasting problem
- Bayesian hierarchical modeling for studying public opinion
- Bayesian modeling for Big Data
Prerequisite
High School Math. Some exposure to computer programming.
Instructors
Andrew Gelman
Professor of Statistics and Political Science
Columbia University
David Madigan
Executive Vice President and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Columbia University
Lauren Hannah
Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Eva Ascarza
Assistant Professor of Marketing at Columbia Business School
Columbia University
James Curley
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Columbia University
Tian Zheng
Series Creator
Columbia University
Editor
Columbia University is a private university located in Morningside Heights, in the north-western part of the borough of Manhattan, in New York (United States). Its origins lie in King's College, founded in 1754 by King George II of Great Britain. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States and is part of the Ivy League group of eight of the country's oldest, most famous, most prestigious and most elitist universities.
Columbia is one of the most selective and prestigious universities in the world. The admission rate was 5.1% in 2019, comparable to Harvard and Stanford. Ranked first in the United States for research, it is sixth in the world (fourth in the United States) in the CUWR ranking of the world's top 1,000 universities and eighth in the Shanghai University Rankings.
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