Statistical Thinking for Data Analysis

Understand the Reasoning and Thinking of Data Analysis

Created by: Anthony Donoghue
Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• How to assess the quality of study design and how it affects data quality
• How to reason with variation in data using data visualizations and summary statistics
• How to reason with the variation in sample statistics using sampling distributions
• A conceptual understanding of statistical inference: confidence intervals and hypothesis testing
• Introduction to linear regression
• Introduction to R and RStudio analyzing real-world data

Requirements

• Basic Arithmetic. No other background knowledge required
• No programming experience required

Target audience

• Students who want to gain a foundational understanding of statistics.
• Professionals, like doctors or journalists, who need a better understanding of statistical inference for assessing the quality of research
• Professors preparing to teach introductory statistics courses using my book
• Anyone who wants to gain the critical and statistical thinking skills to question the quality of statistical information presented in the media or in journal articles