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Course overview

In this course, you’ll learn several techniques for sampling data, such as random sampling and cluster sampling. You’ll also learn about discrete variables and random variables in the context of frequency distributions, and the different types of charts and graphs you might use to visualize frequency distributions.

As you learn about these concepts and how to use them for more robust data analysis, you’ll be working with a dataset about basketball players in the WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) that contains general information about players, along with their metrics for the 2016-2017 season.

Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser. At the end of the course, you’ll complete a portfolio project that asks you to investigate Fandango Movie Ratings to determine if Fandango is inflating movie ratings on its site. This is an opportunity to learn to identify and overcome common setbacks in practical data analysis.

Key skills

  • Sampling data using simple, random sampling, stratified sampling, and cluster sampling
  • Employing and measuring variables in statistics
  • Building, visualizing, and comparing frequency distribution tables

Course outline

Introduction to Statistics in R [7 lessons]

Simple Random Sampling 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Define population and samples
  • Employ sampling methods

Stratified Sampling and Cluster Sampling 2h

Lesson Objectives
  • Employ sampling methods
  • Perform stratified sampling and cluster sampling

Variables in Statistics 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Define variables in statistics
  • Identify different kinds of variables
  • Measure variables

Frequency Distributions 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Define frequency distributions
  • Generate frequency distribution
  • Generate grouped frequency distribution tables
  • Define proportions, percentages, and percentiles

Visualizing Frequency Distributions 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Identify the importance of visualizing distributions
  • Generate bar charts and histograms
  • Employ bar plots and histograms

Comparing Frequency Distributions 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Compare frequency distributions
  • Define grouped bar plots
  • Define overlaid histograms
  • Define kernel density estimate plots
  • Define scatter plots and box plots

Guided Project: Investigating Fandango Movie Ratings 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Expand your portfolio with a guided statistics project
  • Overcome common setbacks in data analysis

Projects in this course

Guided Project: Investigating Fandango Movie Ratings

Learn to combine the skills you learned in this course to perform practical data analysis.

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