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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

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This course covers commonly used statistical inference methods for numerical and categorical data. You will learn how to set up and perform hypothesis tests, interpret p-values, and report the results of your analysis in a way that is interpretable for clients or the public. Using numerous data examples, you will learn to report estimates of quantities in a way that expresses the uncertainty of the quantity of interest. You will be guided through installing and using R and RStudio (free statistical software), and will use this software for lab exercises and a final project. The course introduces practical tools for performing data analysis and explores the fundamental concepts necessary to interpret and report results for both categorical and numerical data

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Approx. 16 hours to complete

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Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Statistical Inference
Statistical Hypothesis Testing
R Programming

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Beginner Level

Approx. 16 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Associate Professor of the Practice

Department of Statistical Science

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7 Courses

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Duke University

Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

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Week

Week 1

20 minutes to complete

About the Specialization and the Course

This short module introduces basics about Coursera specializations and courses in general, this specialization: Statistics with R, and this course: Inferential Statistics. Please take several minutes to browse them through. Thanks for joining us in this course!

20 minutes to complete

2 readings

Week

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Interval

Welcome to Inferential Statistics! In this course we will discuss Foundations for Inference. Check out the learning objectives, start watching the videos, and finally work on the quiz and the labs of this week. In addition to videos that introduce new concepts, you will also see a few videos that walk you through application examples related to the week's topics. In the first week we will introduce Central Limit Theorem (CLT) and confidence interval.

4 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 65 min), 6 readings, 3 quizzes

7 videos

Introduction4m

Sampling Variability and CLT20m

CLT (for the mean) examples10m

Confidence Interval (for a mean)11m

Accuracy vs. Precision7m

Required Sample Size for ME4m

CI (for the mean) examples5m

6 readings

Lesson Learning Objectives10m

Week 1 Suggested Readings and Practice Exercises10m

About Lab Choices10m

Week 1 Lab Instructions (RStudio)10m

Week 1 Lab Instructions (RStudio Cloud)10m

3 practice exercises

Week 1 Practice Quiz30m

Week 1 Quiz30m

Week 1 Lab30m

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Inference and Significance

Welcome to Week Two! This week we will discuss formal hypothesis testing and relate testing procedures back to estimation via confidence intervals. These topics will be introduced within the context of working with a population mean, however we will also give you a brief peek at what's to come in the next two weeks by discussing how the methods we're learning can be extended to other estimators. We will also discuss crucial considerations like decision errors and statistical vs. practical significance. The labs for this week will illustrate concepts of sampling distributions and confidence levels.

3 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 59 min), 5 readings, 3 quizzes

7 videos

Another Introduction to Inference4m

Hypothesis Testing (for a mean)14m

HT (for the mean) examples9m

Inference for Other Estimators10m

Decision Errors8m

Significance vs. Confidence Level6m

Statistical vs. Practical Significance7m

5 readings

Lesson Learning Objectives10m

Week 2 Suggested Readings and Practice Exercises10m

Week 2 Lab Instructions (RStudio)10m

Week 2 Lab Instructions (RStudio Cloud)10m

3 practice exercises

Week 2 Practice Quiz30m

Week 2 Quiz16m

Week 2 Lab30m

Week

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Inference for Comparing Means

Welcome to Week Three of the course! This week we will introduce the t-distribution and comparing means as well as a simulation based method for creating a confidence interval: bootstrapping. If you have questions or discussions, please use this week's forum to ask/discuss with peers.

4 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 84 min), 5 readings, 3 quizzes

11 videos

Introduction4m

t-distribution7m

Inference for a mean9m

Inference for comparing two independent means8m

Inference for comparing two paired means9m

Power11m

Comparing more than two means6m

ANOVA9m

Conditions for ANOVA2m

Multiple comparisons6m

Bootstrapping8m

5 readings

Lesson Learning Objectives10m

Week 3 Suggested Readings and Practice Exercises10m

Week 3 Lab Instructions (RStudio)10m

Week 3 Lab Instructions (RStudio Cloud)10m

3 practice exercises

Week 3 Practice Quiz30m

Week 3 Quiz30m

Week 3 Lab30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

by ZQNov 22, 2018

Very useful course about statistics. May need some fundamental understanding of statistics before, but through the clear explanation and examples, I've learnt a lot from this course

by PMDec 12, 2017

Very well taught. Student given an opportunity to explore and search for ways to solve problems by themselves. Professor (mentor) and other students always ready to help should you get stuck!

by HSJul 5, 2020

Very nicely designed course and it also progresses very well. If higher mathematics would be involved in it, the course has the ability to replace many college's statistical inference's classes.

by WYOct 17, 2016

I learnt a lot about inferential statistics from this course. It help me to understand better why I used one inferential method instead of another, and the assumptions and conditions.

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