Statistics & Data Analysis: Free Online Courses
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Anyone working as an economist, mathematician, management consultant or researcher is likely to be dealing with numbers on a regular basis. Whether to refute claims, inform decisions or to build evidence to support one’s case, a good command of figures is essential for many professions. In other words, one cannot escape learning and using statistics!
After providing you with a selection of resources for online courses in Econometrics and Mathematics, today we have compiled for you a list of free and open, online courses in Statistics including data analysis and probability.
All courses listed below are in English. While some are open tutorials available at any time of the year, others have opening and closing dates for participation.
- Introduction to Statistics: Inference
Course Provider: Edx
Duration: 6 weeks
Background needed: High school arithmetic - Introduction to Statistics: Probability
Course Provider: Edx
Duration: 5 weeks
Background needed: Basic knowledge of statistics needed (normal curves, histograms etc) - Statistics: The Science of Decisions
Course Provider: Udacity
Duration: Self-paced
Background needed: Elementary math like fractions, basic algebra needed - Introduction to Statistics
Course Provider: Udacity
Duration: Self-paced
Background needed: No special background needed - Statistics One
Course Provider: Coursera
Duration: 12 weeks
Background needed: No special background needed - Data Analysis
Course Provider: Coursera
Duration: 8 weeks
Background needed: Proficieny in R is helpful - Computational Methods for Data Analysis
Course Provider: Coursera
Duration: 10 weeks
Background needed: An advanced course needing solid background in ODEs and familiarity with PDEs and MATLAB - Unpredictable? Randomness, Chance and Free Will
Course Provider: Coursera
Duration: 8 weeks
Background needed: No special background needed - Passion Driven Statistics
Course Provider: Coursera
Duration: N/A
Background needed: No special background needed - Data Management for Clinical Research
Course Provider: Coursera
Duration: 6 weeks
Background needed: An intermediate course needing general interest and background in medical research - Statistical Reasoning
Course Provider: Carnegie Mellon University
Duration: Self-paced
Background needed: No special background needed - Probability & Statistics
Course Provider: Carnegie Mellon University
Duration: Self Paced
Background needed: No special background needed
With the Khan Academy´s open tutorials, you can get access to / revise some fundamental concepts in Statistics like dependent and independent variables, random variables and probability distributions, descriptive statistics,inferential statistics and regression.
Please feel free to share any other online portals you use to learn Statistics, by commenting below this post.
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