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Statistical Thinking in Python (Part 1)

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Build the foundation you need to think statistically and to speak the language of your data.

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After all of the hard work of acquiring data and getting them into a form you can work with, you ultimately want to make clear, succinct conclusions from them. This crucial last step of a data analysis pipeline hinges on the principles of statistical inference. In this course, you will start building the foundation you need to think statistically, speak the language of your data, and understand what your data is telling you. The foundations of statistical thinking took decades to build, but can be grasped much faster today with the help of computers. With the power of Python-based tools, you will rapidly get up-to-speed and begin thinking statistically by the end of this course.
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    Graphical Exploratory Data Analysis

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    Before diving into sophisticated statistical inference techniques, you should first explore your data by plotting them and computing simple summary statistics. This process, called exploratory data analysis, is a crucial first step in statistical analysis of data.

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    Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis
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    What is the goal of statistical inference?
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    Advantages of graphical EDA
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    Plotting a histogram
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    Plotting a histogram of iris data
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    Axis labels!
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    Adjusting the number of bins in a histogram
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    Plot all of your data: Bee swarm plots
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    Bee swarm plot
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    Interpreting a bee swarm plot
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    Plot all of your data: ECDFs
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    Computing the ECDF
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    Plotting the ECDF
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    Comparison of ECDFs
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    Onward toward the whole story!
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Yashas Roy
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Justin Bois HeadshotJustin Bois

Lecturer at the California Institute of Technology

Justin Bois is a Teaching Professor in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He teaches nine different classes there, nearly all of which heavily feature Python. He is dedicated to empowering students in the biological sciences with quantitative tools, particularly data analysis skills. Beyond biologists, he is thrilled to develop courses for DataCamp, whose students are an excited bunch of burgeoning data scientists!
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  • Yash D.
    8 months

    Very practical application

  • Yefei W.
    8 months

    Instructor made topics clear.

  • Kleopatra R.
    9 months

    Really useful for biological sciences. I enjoyed it and learned.

  • Ed C.
    9 months

    I didn't feel that the current "hypothesis Testing in Python" course explained enough of the theory and meaning of things like p values. Luckily I found this class and the (Part 2) course that goes with it. I believe the material in this (Part 1) course and (Part 2) course fill in the missing holes for the "hypothesis Testing in Python" course I was having a hard time on.

  • Bhanu K.
    10 months

    Very Good

"Very practical application"

Yash D.

"Instructor made topics clear."

Yefei W.

"Really useful for biological sciences. I enjoyed it and learned."

Kleopatra R.

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