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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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AB

May 23, 2023

The lectures were clear and thorough, with a good amount of examples. The quizzes were excellent, and I learned a lot from the feedback. One of the best Coursera courses I have ever taken!

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 KB E

Nov 30, 2021

A very good course. Definitely a course to take for an introduction into Statistics. Also probably going to be very useful as I'm planning on taking Machine Learning.

By Deleted A

Jan 16, 2022

It was quite the experience, brilliant teaching with wonderful presentation of lessons. The professor was really great. The assignments were also astonishing.

By Mohammed K

Sep 13, 2021

very good course to take , because this course was explained in detailed and also by doing the quiz of this course helpful to learn perfectly.

By Miguel R

May 15, 2023

Excellent course, with ideal programmatic content for those who want to move forward in machine learning or even advanced statistics.

By Ariel

Mar 19, 2023

Very interesting statistics course, the instructor clearly conveys the shared knowledge. Very satisfied with the course.

By Pankaj S

Sep 6, 2021

Excellent course... Only improvement I can suggest is to add more problems in the lectures as well as quizzes.

By Dixon A

Jun 27, 2021

This course will surely help kick start my career in data science. I have learned alot.

By Debjeet M

Oct 13, 2022

it helped me in understanding the basics of the different statistical algorithms

By Francis W K

Feb 25, 2023

Very good refresher course. Those new to statistics can easily follow and learn.

By Anton L

Jan 4, 2022

Excellent teacher. Course would benefit from some more examples.

By Jose L

Oct 18, 2022

Excellent course to know basic concepts about Statistics

By Husanboy M

Apr 24, 2023

It was an amazing course, but as a person who had never had strong background experience in algebra and statistics, I struggled a bit in understanding some parts. I also wish that the given examples were animated or illustrated in some way since we are visual beings and it makes things clearer to understand.

Overall, however, I like the way how the course was organized. I am planning to take more courses in statistics since I would like to discuss and understand statistical inferences and linear regressions in deeper.

By Sagar S

Mar 26, 2022

Somewhere dissatistified from the course . At some specific points very little explation is given and you have to study on your own again and again. For example he didn't taught how to calculate Standard Deviation but using through the course. Conclusion: Course was informative but not worth the hype.

By 劉邦均

Jul 12, 2023

I spent a lot of time looking for how the formulas were derived. I hope this class can spend more time explaining the formulas instead of just telling us when to use them. However, the first half of course is still suitable for beginner.

By Maya M

May 18, 2021

A wonderful course. However, I don't think it's strictly a beginner course because several concepts could be better comprehended with a pre-existing knowledge of the subject. This course makes concepts clearer and enhances understanding.

By Nicolás E

Oct 15, 2022

It is a great course, but in my opinion it is complimentary and you should also look for further information on your own. I wouldn't say it's a full course, but more of a companion course of sorts. It's still great though!

By Ahmed K

Feb 23, 2023

I think everything is good in this course, the content, instructor, quizzes, and assessments. but the only thing that bothered me is there are not enough examples to explain the concepts in the videos.

By Alanoofedup

Jul 24, 2023

Gives all the necessary and basic skills needed for a potential college level statistics course. Videos and lessons are a little hard to follow through major jumps in topics. 4/5 stars.

By Shawn W

Dec 23, 2018

Good material, very very dry instructor.

By Vlad B

Sep 23, 2022

Good:

- there is enough material to be called Introduction to Statistics.

- lecture questions & quizzes for application of critical thinking.

- formulas are not complicated by symbols, which makes it easier for you to understand them and reread

- Normal Approximation is the best topic described here.

Bad:

- lecture slides don't really complement intstructor's speech and vice versa. In fact, the instructor repeats the text on the slides in most cases

- lecture slides contain a lot of text which is not well structured. They also contain very few illustrative figures and tables, but where they are, you immediately understand what it is about ( e.g. Normal Approximation).

Due to the fact that most of the theory is presented in dry text, I advise you to use Excel (or similar tools) to understand what it is about.

By Piotr

Dec 3, 2022

Very condensed course with a clear structure, intelligently designed quizzes, and a good lecturer.

However, I needed to do a lot of additional reading from other sources to understand the content. IMHO, the course could have much more explanations on the topics and provide much more practical exercises. I rather see the course as a basic framework for your own, deepened learning that as a self-sufficient training.

By Heybin J

Nov 2, 2022

This is hard to say for beginners. Coming from a social science background without mathematical knowledge, I struggled a lot to keep up with the course content. Not very kind in defining the basic concepts and proving the formulas. I've always been lost in the middle of each lesson and had to google relevant materials.

By Zahid S

Aug 18, 2022

Time and again, there were explanations missing for why certain things were done the way they were and theoretical foundations not completely set up. Decent course as an introduction but I have seen better and one does not necessarily need to skimp on the theoretical derivations to make an introductory course.

By Ginger d R

Mar 20, 2024

Pretty quick overview. I recommend doing AP Stats on khan academy to get a better inderstanding.

By Allan G

Jan 3, 2023

I recently tutored a student in an introduction to statistics course by reading the textbook and learning as he learned. While I gained a basis understanding of statistics, I found that the textbook (Statistics, Unlocking the Power of Data) somewhat confusing and I wanted to take another statistics course to try and clarify basic concepts that I felt were not explained well in that course, so I took this course. I found this course to be so formula - intense that the basic concepts were lost in the discussion of the formulae and many were not clearly explained. Another drawback was that the graphs in the videos were blurry and one could only read the designations on the x and y axes by referring to the slides separately, which was distracting. I kept moving through the course, determined to finish it and evaluate the concepts that were being discussed, but it was very disorienting to follow the formulae and try to glean their import as related to the concept being discussed. I passed the quizzes by keeping a list of the correct answers for each attempt (many of which I chose at random) and finally passing by the process of elimination. If I had not had previous knowledge of statistics, this course would have not been helpful. Even so, it did not significantly increase my knowledge of statistics.