Statistical Inference (Coursera)

A practitioner can often be left in a debilitating maze of techniques, philosophies and nuance. This course presents the fundamentals of inference in a practical approach for getting things done. After taking this course, students will understand the broad directions of statistical inference and use this information for making informed choices in analyzing data.

Completing this course will count towards your learning in any of the following programs:

- Data Science: Statistics and Machine Learning Specialization

- Data Science Specialization

What You Will Learn

- Understand the process of drawing conclusions about populations or scientific truths from data

- Describe variability, distributions, limits, and confidence intervals

- Use p-values, confidence intervals, and permutation tests

- Make informed data analysis decisions

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Probability & Expected Values

This week, we'll focus on the fundamentals including probability, random variables, expectations and more.

WEEK 2

Variability, Distribution, & Asymptotics

We're going to tackle variability, distributions, limits, and confidence intervals.

WEEK 3

Intervals, Testing, & Pvalues

We will be taking a look at intervals, testing, and pvalues in this lesson.

WEEK 4

Power, Bootstrapping, & Permutation Tests

We will begin looking into power, bootstrapping, and permutation tests.