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About the Course

In this course, we will explore basic principles behind using data for estimation and for assessing theories. We will analyze both categorical data and quantitative data, starting with one population techniques and expanding to handle comparisons of two populations. We will learn how to construct confidence intervals. We will also use sample data to assess whether or not a theory about the value of a parameter is consistent with the data. A major focus will be on interpreting inferential results appropriately. At the end of each week, learners will apply what they’ve learned using Python within the course environment. During these lab-based sessions, learners will work through tutorials focusing on specific case studies to help solidify the week’s statistical concepts, which will include further deep dives into Python libraries including Statsmodels, Pandas, and Seaborn. This course utilizes the Jupyter Notebook environment within Coursera....

Top reviews

RZ

Apr 1, 2020

This is a very great course. Statistics by itself is a very powerful tool for solving real world problems. Combine it with the knowledge of Python, there no limit to what you can achieve.

R

Jan 21, 2021

Very good course content and mentors & teachers. The course content was very structured. I learnt a lot from the course and gained skills which will definitely gonna help me in future.

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By balaji r

May 20, 2020

Highly recommend this course.

By 고도균

Jul 12, 2019

The python codes are amazing.

By HASSAN M A H H M A H

Apr 12, 2023

سهلة التعلم لتحليل البيانات

By JITHIN P J

May 16, 2020

very nice and informative

By Sebastian R R

Aug 16, 2020

Excelente curso!!!

By Aniket S

Apr 15, 2020

Excellent Cousre.

By Beatriz J F

Nov 24, 2019

Very satisfied.

By Varanasi v r

Jul 6, 2020

Extremely Good

By Ime E

Oct 2, 2020

Great course.

By Eduardo L L

Sep 22, 2021

Good Course

By Dr G S

Mar 9, 2022

very good

By cameron g

Apr 21, 2019

Excellent

By Hoang V T

Oct 11, 2022

thanks

By Deleted A

May 17, 2020

Greate!

By Justin H

Sep 24, 2023

brutal

By EISSA Y S

Apr 1, 2023

شكرا

By EmyZhang

May 6, 2021

good

By P. B R

Apr 24, 2020

good

By s n

Mar 2, 2020

good

By KOPPARTHI H H

Mar 2, 2020

good

By Jerrold

Nov 19, 2020

I really don't see the reason for all the hate for this course and the specialization.

Pros:

Robust syllabus on statistics and mathematics that covers all the important concepts in inferential stats

Ample example python notebook files for students to reference

High quality lectures and content

Manageable assignments and quizzes

Lots of guided examples (week4) and excellent readings written by UoM on statistics and data analysis theory and practices.

Student forum support from lecturers is excellent

Cons (minus 1 star):

While the material in this course is good, we should be given some notes with formulas and diagrams to accompany us at the start of week 2 and 3 (the hardest ones)

A person without a background in python will struggle in this specialization because you need to have programing skill and experience and the introductory practices are not enough.

You need to have some prior experience with stats or a pre-college/college year 1 text book to accompany you if this is your first time learning stats. The start-middle phase content at each chapter is explained and NOT skipped, but it could use more elaboration. I had to source elsewhere on the internet for the gaps in my knowledge (which were easily found). It is just missing a few elementary level explanations (how to calculate P values and what tests to use in different scenarios) to understand the more complex topics. I learned hypothesis testing in high school and had to refer to my textbooks for a few explanations and diagrams.

Summary:

Very satisfied with this course for what I got out of it, I gained multiple skills and a lot of familiarity with theory and examples.

By Matteo L

Apr 5, 2020

Just like the other two courses of this specialization I believe the content offered here is great and the main methods used for statistical inference are well explained and even possibly more important, the interpretation of results is really hammered home here which is great. A few things that weren't covered thoroughly enough (if at all) in my opinion are QQplots (maybe this is more related to course 1...) and Chi-square tests (what are they and when do we use them?). Also it would have been nice to take a little bit more time to explain the differences in using t-tests and z-tests and why we would choose one over the other. I do believe the structure of the notebooks could be improved, maybe listing all of the possible functions that can be used for statistical inference for each type of scenario (e.g. functions applicable for mean of population proportion). As always, I would have loved for answers to be provided for the "extra practice" notebooks.

By CARLOS M V R

Aug 31, 2020

This course gives a lot of important concepts such as confidences intervals, p-values and hypothesis testing, but I think it is short in terms of using it in real life because the explanations rely on examples that always fulfil the same conditions and in real life it is not possible to have always the same conditions for a problem you want to study. It would be nice if the course could be complemented (in a deep way) with applications of complex samples and non-probability samples, not only single random sample. Also, python codes are not explained in a deep way.

By Wenlei Y

Dec 17, 2019

The teaching team is great. But the assignments are not very helpful. And yes, this is more a statistics course than a python course. The application with python, which I am more interested in, seems just the supplementary portions to the lectures of concepts of statistics. There is not much introduction to how we use python to perform statistics, how we debug, and how we interpret the outcomes of programs.

By Hwanmun K

Feb 22, 2020

It would be better to give precise definitions of each test, at least in optional reading material. Also, sometimes different lecturers used different terminologies and sometimes concepts not covered before just popped up in the video (ex. chi-square test). In general, it seems more organization in the material needed.