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About the Course

Stanford's "Introduction to Statistics" teaches you statistical thinking concepts that are essential for learning from data and communicating insights. By the end of the course, you will be able to perform exploratory data analysis, understand key principles of sampling, and select appropriate tests of significance for multiple contexts. You will gain the foundational skills that prepare you to pursue more advanced topics in statistical thinking and machine learning. Topics include Descriptive Statistics, Sampling and Randomized Controlled Experiments, Probability, Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem, Regression, Common Tests of Significance, Resampling, Multiple Comparisons....

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OK

Nov 17, 2023

The course was incredibly informative. I am glad that I got the opportunity to study in a course on statistics from Stanford University itself. I thank the creators and participants of the course!

BH

Jun 26, 2023

I started this course to get into machine learning and AI. This was packed with a lot of information to get you started. It doesn't got deep into each topic but great for an overal view.

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By ENRIQUE G M

Jun 24, 2022

Es muy interesante, aunque algunos conceptos no se explican lo suficientemente bien como para que alguien que no sepa estadística lo entienda. Algunas lecciones requerirán investigación fuera del curso para poder ser comprendidas claramente.

By Bartek B

May 1, 2022

Confidence intervals and hypothesis thesis was very well explained, however, the course is fast paced and some of the videos lack thorough explanation. I am a master computer science student and couldn't understand all the details (but most)

By Victoria H

Jan 31, 2025

I found this course rather insightful and pretty enjoyable. However, it did get abit harder to follow on the later modules as I personally had not done math in a long time. I think the examples given were very helpful.

By Valentina G

Oct 24, 2022

A very good instance to learn the basics of Statistics. It feels a little rushed, since you only have a few questions at the end of each module and sometimes you might need some more practice before assesing them.

By Martin S

Aug 15, 2024

Good intro and recap, sometimes more precise explanation of the statistical terms would be beneficial. This was for me always the biggest problem in understanding statistics: the vocabulary and it's precise usage.

By Moisés A

Mar 26, 2022

Foi ótimo rever algumas coisas básicas da área. A apresentação é boa e a maioria das coisas é bem explicada. No entanto, senti falta de aplicar isso computacionalmente em softwares como R e Python durante o curso.

By Muhammad S A

Aug 12, 2022

Liked the first half of the course. I think the later topics could have been explained in more detail. Found the lectures montonous sometimes. I had studied some statisitcs before, so this was a good revision.

By Qonitatul R

Feb 5, 2023

thanks for helping me learn more about statistics. At first I thought statistics were just simple calculations, but in practice they turned out to be quite complicated and required us to think hard and smart.

By shurabil s

Sep 25, 2024

Course maintains a good quality throughout modules, very interesting topics are covered. However, for practice questions and revision I needed to look elsewhere to ensure I got high on the quizzes and exams.

By Stefanie P

Feb 7, 2022

As someone who has not taken a college course or math in 15 years, this was not too difficult to follow. I was taking it to understand concepts and not necessarily produce calculations. This fit the bill.

By Joel M

Aug 11, 2022

Gives a great overview of every important topic in statistics. However, lots of things aren't explained thoroughly. I had to use other websites to gain a sufficient understanding of lots of material.

By Weijie M

Apr 22, 2022

Dont think this course really suits beginners for statistics. Rather, it's challenging and the concepts sometimes are even confusing. Anyway I think I did learned something during the course.

By min x

Feb 2, 2022

It was short and informational, but the knowledge is somehow deep for beginners. Maybe the lecturer elaborating a little bit more on major concepts would be profitable for beginners.

By Bikram K N

Feb 4, 2022

The course was very interesting. A lot of concepts were touched up on, but the explanation part was a little less. I can label it as a very good introductory course to Statistics.

By Louis M

Feb 13, 2022

Very intersting and insightful course. I believe some topics, especially those that come up often, could have been clarified further through definitions rather than mere examples

By Teron E B

Jun 3, 2023

Peer reviews helped me ensure I learned the content. Sometimes the test doesn't verify that a student is learning. Aside from that I was able to freshen up on my math skills.

By Segun A

Nov 30, 2021

Good intro course, however, if you are coming from a no-scientific background would advice you work on a few mathematical concepts prior. Namely; basic algebra & probability

By Carlos A B G

Aug 16, 2022

The course has many interesting and useful topics about Statistics that are way useful for Data Science, but in my opinion it lacks more concrete formulas and explanations.

By Deleted A

Aug 19, 2022

this course made my statstical learning easy. this super easy i hope the knowledge i learned can be improved little bit further and use statistics like i do programming

By Sarievo

Dec 29, 2021

There is much calculus involved which makes me hard to digest the materials (I have not completed calculus yet), but overall an informative course from Stanford online.

By Ilan F

Dec 1, 2023

At the start, it is quite good as it goes to the basics and is what you would expect. However by week 4 it just overloads you with info and you kind of give up

By Bruno G

Jan 8, 2022

Challenging but a good overview of basic principles of statistics. Will allow me to read with a more critical eye figures that are used to support arguments.

By Hibba K

Feb 22, 2023

This course really helps me out to better understand the basic concept of Probability and statistics, also the course material was designed very well.

By Tomos D

Jun 23, 2023

Good overview of concepts, not much guided practice or sets of problems to try before assessments to facilitate deeper learning and understanding.

By Yuvaraj K

May 9, 2022

If one live example is given for every concept, that would be a very great journey in understanding the concepts more. But overall a good course.