Welcome to the Pre-MBA Statistics course! By the end of this course, you will be able to describe how statistics can be used to summarize, analyze, and interpret data. This course introduces you to some aspects of descriptive and inferential statistics. You will learn to distinguish between various data types and describe the operations that you can execute with each type of data and the right tools to use. The course also discusses the concepts of probability, which form the backbone of statistical analysis. In particular, the course explores how data behaves and provides insight into its analysis. Further, it discusses how data can be sampled and the pros and cons of these methods. The course also delves deeper into the behavior of large data sets based on well-established statistical results. This also enables you to identify the pitfalls of incorrectly using statistical laws. Lastly, you will learn how to estimate population parameters based on limited data and check the correctness of hypotheses about populations from limited data.

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Pre-MBA Statistics


Instructors: Sriram Sankaranarayanan
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Explore the types of data and the basics of probability.
Describe how a relatively small sample of data can help to infer about a large population.
Justify arguments about a population based on limited data.
Skills you'll gain
- Statistical Visualization
- Sample Size Determination
- Data Collection
- Statistics
- Sampling (Statistics)
- Statistical Modeling
- Statistical Hypothesis Testing
- Statistical Methods
- Probability & Statistics
- Data Analysis
- Descriptive Statistics
- Estimation
- Probability
- Data Presentation
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Science
- Data Visualization
- Statistical Inference
- Probability Distribution
- Data Literacy
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