Welcome to the course on Basics of Statistics - Part 1.
Statistics is not just an academic subject but helps all of us, especially businesspeople in taking decisions. After learning this course, one can master the art of gathering or collecting data and presenting it in a graphical form.
Students, youngsters and others who do surveys and experiments can enroll in this course and make the best out of it. This course helps the learners to collect the data, process, analyze and interpret to give results.
Statistics is a very important branch of mathematics and it has several uses such as follows:
It helps in gaining a better understanding of a phenomenon of nature.
It helps in capturing and getting the exact description of a phenomenon of nature.
In any field of study, statistics helps in conducting in a proper organized and efficient planning of a statistical inquiry.
It helps in gathering of appropriate quantitative data.
It helps to easily and clearly understand and comprehend complex data.
It helps in representing complex data in an easy and understandable manner by presenting the data through tabular, diagrammatic and graphic form.
It helps to use sample data to validly infer and measure the reliability about the population parameters.
It helps to understand the pattern of variability of a phenomenon.
It helps to carry out quantitative observations which are useful in understanding the nature of a phenomenon.
There is a very useful section which explains the Steps for Presentation of Data, which includes:-
Classification of Data
Tabulation of Data
Frequency Distribution of Data
Diagrammatic Presentation of Data
Graphic Representation of Data
The learners can gain more knowledge after reading the case studies which explains how to collect the data and present it and another case study explains how to prepare frequency distribution table using the data collected.
There are couple of DIY activities at the end of the course to test the skills of the learners.
No prior experience is required for enrolling in this course. This entire course has 15 downloadable video courses.
Enroll soon to master yourself in Statistics.
