Statistics One

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Statistics One is designed to be a comprehensive yet friendly introductionto fundamental concepts in statistics. Comprehensive means that this courseprovides a solid foundation for students planning to pursue more advancedcourses in statistics. Friendly means exactly that. The course assumesvery little background knowledge in statistics and introduces new conceptswith several fun and easy to understand examples. 

This course is, quite literally, for everyone. If you think you can'tlearn statistics, this course is for you. If you had a statistics coursebefore but feel like you need a refresher, this course is for you. Evenif you are a relatively advanced researcher or analyst, this course providesa foundation and a context that helps to put one’s work into perspective.

Statistics One also provides an introduction to the R programming language.All the examples and assignments will involve writing code in R and interpretingR output. R software is free! What this means is you can download R, takethis course, and start programming in R after just a few lectures. Thatsaid, this course is not a comprehensive guide to R or to programming ingeneral.