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This course for absolute beginners provides you with the opportunity to systematically learn core statistical and probability concepts, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and advanced regression/ML methods such as logistics regressions, polynomial regressions, decision trees, and more.
If you aim for a career in data science or data analytics, this course will equip you with the practical knowledge needed to master basic statistics. You need good statistics and probability theory knowledge to become a data scientist or analyst. The course begins with an introduction to descriptive statistics and explains the basics, including the mean, median, mode, and skewness. You will then learn more about ranges, interquartile range (IQR), samples and populations, variance, and standard deviation. The following section will explain distributions in detail, including normal distribution and Z-scores. Then, you will explore probability in detail, go over the Bayes theorem, the Central Limit theorem, the law of large numbers, and finally, Poisson's distribution. Next, you will comprehensively explore linear regression and the coefficients of regression, mean square error, mean absolute error, and root mean square error. You will also explore hypothesis testing and type I and II errors in more detail and then learn comprehensively about the analysis of variance (ANOVA). After completing this course, you will comprehensively acquire knowledge about statistical fundamentals, data analysis methods, decision-making processes, and machine learning concepts with examples. All resources are available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Statistics-Mathematics-for-Data-Science-Data-Analytics
Master basic statistics, descriptive statistics, and probability theory
Explore ML methods, including decision trees and decision forests
Learn probability distributions normal and Poisson distributions
Explore hypothesis testing, p-values, types I and II error handling
Master logistic regression, linear regression, and regression trees
Learn correlation, R-Square, RMSE, MAE, and coefficient of determination
This beginner-level course has been niched to cater to an individual looking to master statistics and probability for data science and analysis, an individual looking to pursue a career in data science, or professionals and students wanting to understand statistics for data analysis. The prerequisites for this course include absolutely no previous experience required and an eagerness and motivation to learn.
The course has been schematically delivered over video lectures involving hands-on, on-screen demonstrations and detailed explanations. Several quizzes, practice exercises, and clear explanations of the tasks have been provided. You will learn everything about statistics and probability from the basics and then work your way up.
This course equips you with actual knowledge of statistics and probability when working with data * Learn from a mathematical expert/data scientist and balance theory and practice with real examples * Comprehensively master statistics and probability for actual data science and analysis methods
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Statistics-Mathematics-for-Data-Science-Data-Analytics
Nikolai Schuler, as a data scientist and BI consultant, believes that the data world benefits from new tools and technologies, but it is extremely difficult to get trained in the field as practical courses with quality content are rare or are structured incompatible with a busy working life. Nikolai's courses offer precious content and have an easy-to-follow structure. He aims to help anyone wishing to pursue their desired career by upgrading their data analysis skills. His courses have already found their audience in over 170 countries with numerous positive feedback and will equip you with the skillsets to master data science and analytics! If you are looking for qualitatively approachable training, then jump on board!
1. Let's Get Started
This section explores the content of the course and what one can learn from this course in detail. We will explore insights into data and probability, space, applications, and hypothesis testing.
1. Welcome! This is a welcome introduction by the author where he explains in detail what the course is all about, what you will learn from the course, and a brief outline of the entire course's content. |
2. What Will You Learn in This Course? In this video, the author briefly introduces what it would take to become a data scientist and then goes over in detail what one can learn from this course. |
3. How Can You Get the Most Out of It? In this lesson, the author explains how to use the course best and the techniques and tools best applicable. |
2. Descriptive Statistics
This section focuses on the fundamentals of statistics, including mean, median, mode, skewness, range, variance, and standard deviation.
1. Introduction This brief introduction to the section outlines what you will be learning from this section, including the basics of statistics. |
2. Mean In this video, we will discuss the measures of central tendency. Here, you will learn more about the first measure, the mean. |
3. Median In this lesson, we will discuss the second important measure of central tendency, the median. |
4. Mode In this lecture, we will elaborate more about the third and final measure of central tendency, the mode. |
5. Mean or Median? In this lesson, the author explains more about the mean and median and when to use them for the best results. |
6. Skewness In this video, you will learn about skewness, the symmetry you learned about in the previous lesson. |
7. Practice: Skewness This is a practice lesson/exercise to better understand the concept of skewness. |
8. Solution: Skewness This video is an explanation of the practice lesson/exercise of skewness. |
9. Range and IQR In this lesson, we will understand the measures of spread or dispersion, which is the range, and we will look at the interquartile range in detail. |
10. Sample Versus Population This lecture will explain the fundamental difference between a sample and a population in statistical data. |
11. Variance and Standard Deviation After learning about the measures of spread, the range, and IQR, we will now learn more about the two most common measures of spread, the variance, and standard deviation. |
12. Impact of Scaling and Shifting In this video, we will look at the impact of the data changes we make with underlying data in the measures of central tendency or dispersion. |
13. Statistical Moments Here, we will understand the concepts of statistical moments, which generalizes what we already know about the central tendency measures and spread/dispersion. |
3. Distributions
This section focuses on data distribution and explains normal distribution and Poisson's distribution in detail.
1. What Is a Distribution? This brief introduction to distribution elaborates on what constitutes data distribution and the kinds of distribution you will learn about. |
2. Normal Distribution After understanding the data distribution concept, we will look at the first type, the normal distribution. |
3. Z-Scores In this lesson, you will learn more about a precise distribution score, the Z score, and the Z score table. |
4. Practice: Normal Distribution This is a practical exercise in understanding normal distribution with examples to learn the concept better. |
5. Solution: Normal Distribution This video provides the solution and explanations to the practice exercise on the normal distribution in the previous video. |
4. Probability Theory
This section focuses on the mathematics of probability. You will learn how to calculate simple probabilities, addition, multiplication, Bayes theorem, and central limit.
1. Introduction This brief introductory video to this section lets us know what you will learn in terms of probability and its elements. |
2. Probability Basics This lesson will shift our focus from descriptive statistics to a more mathematical probability theory. |
3. Calculating Simple Probabilities In this lecture, you will learn to calculate the probability of events using a simple probability distribution. |
4. Practice: Simple Probabilities In this quick practice exercise, we will apply what we already learned about simple probabilities and solve an exercise. |
5. Quick Solution: Simple Probabilities This video provides the solution and explanation to the exercise provided in the previous lecture. |
6. Detailed Solution: Simple Probabilities This video provides a more elaborate explanation of the solution to the exercise provided in the previous practice exercise. |
7. Rule of Addition In this video, you will learn about calculating a combination of the probability of two events. |
8. Practice: Rule of Addition This is a practice exercise to understand better the rule of addition concept with a practical exercise. |
9. Quick Solution: Rule of Addition This video provides a quick solution to the practice exercise of the rule of addition concept. |
10. Detailed Solution: Rule of Addition This video provides a more elaborate and detailed solution to the practice exercise of the rule of addition concept. |
11. Rule of Multiplication In this lesson, we will look at the multiplication rule, which also enables us to calculate the combination of events and the combination of both events. |
12. Practice: Rule of Multiplication This is a practice exercise to understand better the rule of multiplication concepts with a practical exercise. |
13. Solution: Rule of Multiplication This video provides an elaborate and detailed solution to the practice exercise of the rule of multiplication concept. |
14. Bayes Theorem This video is a detailed explanation of the Bayes theorem, which is an important theorem of probability, with a simple example. |
15. Bayes Theorem - Practical Example This is a practice exercise to understand better the Bayes theorem concept with a more advanced practical exercise. |
16. Expected Value In this lesson, you will learn about an important concept in probability, the expected value or outcome. |
17. Practice: Expected Value This is a practice exercise to better understand the expected value concept with a practical exercise. |
18. Solution: Expected Value This video provides an elaborate solution to the expected value concept practice exercise. |
19. Law of Large Numbers This lesson will explore the famous mathematical law, the law of large numbers, and its misconceptions. |
20. Central Limit Theorem - Theory In this video, you will learn about a fundamental concept of probability, the central limit theorem. The author explains this comprehensively as the base for the following lectures. |
21. Central Limit Theorem - Intuition In this video, we will understand the central limit theorem intuitively. We will explore this concept online using the onlinestatbook.com webpage. |
22. Central Limit Theorem - Challenge This is a hands-on challenge to understand better the central limit theorem concept with a practical example. |
23. Central Limit Theorem - Exercise This is a hands-on practice exercise to understand the central limit theorem concept better with a practical example. |
24. Central Limit Theorem - Solution This video provides an elaborate solution to the practice exercise of the central limit theorem concept. |
25. Binomial Distribution This video will look at the most important probability distribution applicable in real life, the binomial distribution and the binomial coefficient. |
26. Poisson Distribution We will look at another important distribution named after the French mathematician, Simeon Denis Poisson. |
27. Real-Life Problems This lecture will look at real-life examples to understand the probability distributions, mostly the binomial and Poisson distributions. |
5. Hypothesis Testing
This section focuses on hypothesis testing. Here, you will learn about significance levels and p-values, type I and II errors, confidence intervals, the margin of error, t-tests, and proportion testing.
1. Introduction This is a brief synopsis of hypothesis testing and what you will learn about in this section. |
2. What Is a Hypothesis? In this video, you will learn more about influential statistics and what we do in hypothesis testing. |
3. Significance Level and P-Value After learning about hypothesis testing, we will now understand the significance level of a hypothesis. |
4. Type I and Type II Errors This video will look at the errors we make while addressing the significance level or determining the probability value, which we classify as type I and II errors. |
5. Confidence Intervals and Margin of Error This lesson will explore a confidence interval while estimating the significance level and determining an acceptable margin of error. |
6. Excursion: Calculating Sample Size and Power After exploring confidence intervals and margin of error, we will now understand how to determine a sample size to reduce the error size caused by the sample size. |
7. Performing the Hypothesis Test This video elaborates on performing actual hypothesis testing through a demonstration. |
8. Practice: Hypothesis Test This is a practice exercise to implement a hypothesis testing that we have explored comprehensively so far. |
9. Solution: Hypothesis Test This video provides the solution and explanation to the hypothesis testing practice exercise we worked on above. |
10. t-test and t-distribution In this video, you will learn more about the student's t-test and t-distribution in detail. |
11. Proportion Testing In this lesson, we will work through all the steps of hypothesis testing with an example of proportion testing. |
12. Important p-z Pairs While performing the hypothesis testing and general statistics, you will learn more about the p-z combination and the normal distribution. |
6. Regressions
This section focuses on regressions, correlation coefficients, coefficient of determination, and the root mean square error.
1. Introduction In this video, we will briefly understand the concept of regression and how regression analysis predicts data value. |
2. Linear Regression Here, we will understand dependent and independent variables and learn how to predict values using linear regression. |
3. Correlation Coefficient After learning about linear regression and how to calculate the formula for our regression lines, we will now look at the correlation coefficient or Pearson's coefficient. |
4. Practice: Correlation This is a practice exercise on Pearson's coefficient regression analysis. |
5. Solution: Correlation This is the solution to the practice exercise on Pearson's coefficient regression analysis. |
6. Practice: Linear Regression This is a practice exercise on linear regression analysis. |
7. Solution: Linear Regression This is a solution to the practice exercise on linear regression analysis. |
8. Residual, MSE, and MAE This lesson will teach us an intuitively understandable matrix for how our regression works. |
9. Practice: MSE and MAE This is a practice exercise on the mean square error and mean absolute error to check the accuracy of our regression. |
10. Solution: MSE and MAE This is the solution to the practice exercise on the mean square error and mean absolute error to check the accuracy of our regression. |
11. Coefficient of Determination Let's learn more about one significant measure to determine how well our regressions work using the coefficient of determination. |
12. Root Mean Square Error In this lecture, you will learn another important metric to determine the quality of our regression using the root mean square error method. |
13. Practice: RMSE This is a practice exercise to estimate how well a regression works using the root mean square error method. |
14. Solution: RMSE This is the solution to the practice exercise to estimate how well a regression works using the root mean square error method. |
7. Advanced Regression and Machine Learning Algorithms
This section focuses on advanced regression techniques and machine learning algorithms, including multiple linear regression, decision trees, regression trees, and logistic regression.
1. Multiple Linear Regression After learning about simple linear regression with two variables, we will now look at multiple linear regression using multiple variables. |
2. Overfitting In this video, we will explore overfitting, which is very commonly used in machine learning. |
3. Polynomial Regression In this lesson, you will learn to use polynomial regression when linear regression is not working well to report accuracy, using the Bayes information criterion. |
4. Logistic Regression This video will look at logistic regression in detail, mainly used for classification problems with one or multiple independent variables. |
5. Decision Trees In this lecture, we will look at a decision tree, how it works, its logic, and how to construct a decision tree. |
6. Regression Trees After learning how decision trees work, we will now look at the application of the decision tree practically that combines a decision tree with regression. |
7. Random Forests Let's now learn more about the Random Forest, which is based on a decision tree (not very robust and more complex) that is now broken down into smaller decision trees, which are not as complex. |
8. Dealing with Missing Data In this lecture, you will learn how to approach this problem of dealing with missing data and look at some practical examples. |
8. ANOVA (Analysis of Variance)
This section entirely focuses on the analysis of variance (ANOVA), including the one-way and two-way analyses and the F-ratio.
1. ANOVA - Basics and Assumptions This video illustrates the analysis of variance, where we will look at the use of this variance in our dependent variables. |
2. One-Way ANOVA In this video, you will learn to use the one-way ANOVA, where there is only one dependent factor. |
3. F-Distribution After learning how to use the one-way ANOVA, we will try to understand how to use the F-distribution to conclude the analysis results. |
4. Two-Way ANOVA - Sum of Squares Let's explore more about using two factors to perform the two-way ANOVA, which will let us find the influence of two factors. |
5. Two-Way ANOVA - F-Ratio and Conclusions In this video, let's learn to calculate the F ratio for the two-way ANOVA, interpret the results, and draw conclusions. |
9. Wrap Up
This section focuses on concluding what you have learned in the course.
1. Wrap Up This final course video concludes with a thank-you note from the author. |