What Is Statistics: Crash Course Statistics #1
Welcome to Crash Course Statistics! In this series we're going to take a look at the important role statistics play in our everyday lives, because statistics are everywhere! Statistics help...
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Hi, I’m Adriene Hill, and this is Crash Course Statistics. Welcome to a world of probabilities, paradoxes and p-values. There will be games. And thought experiments. And coin flipping. A lot of coin flipping. Statisticians love to talk about coin flipping. By the time we finish the course, you’ll know why we use statistics. And how. And what questions you ought to be asking when you run across statistics in the world. Which is ALL THE TIME. Statistics can help you make a guess whether or not you’re going to be accepted to Harvard. Marketers use them to sell us gold-lame pants. Netflix uses stats to predict what show we might want to watch next. You use statistics when you look at the weather forecast and decide what to wear--dress or jeans. Polic...
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Hi, I’m Adriene Hill, and this is Crash Course Statistics. Welcome to a world of probabilities, paradoxes and p-values. There will be games. And thought experiments. And coin flipping. A lot of coin flipping. Statisticians love to talk about coin flipping. By the time we finish the course, you’ll know why we use statistics. And how. And what questions you ought to be asking when you run across statistics in the world. Which is ALL THE TIME. Statistics can help you make a guess whether or not you’re going to be accepted to Harvard. Marketers use them to sell us gold-lame pants. Netflix uses stats to predict what show we might want to watch next. You use statistics when you look at the weather forecast and decide what to wear--dress or jeans. Polic...
