Introduction à la statistique avec R
A free introductory MOOC in French that tackles the basics but always with attention to the assumptions and to the correctness of the analysis.
Tag Archives: Statistics
Misused statistical concepts
I have come across these basic truths of statistics several times in my learning experience. Nevertheless, I keep reading press articles and hearing news reports where they are ignored, to the purpose of telling stories that are all but true. The idea crossed my mind already several times, but today I was reading a post …
Gapminder.org: A fact based world review
I have a new idol. When I discovered this web site, thanks to the referral in the “Getting and Cleaning Data” MOOC on Coursera, little did I know about the gapminder.org web site, about Professor Hans Rosling from Sweden and his work as a Statistician and Global Health expert. But what really is gapminder.org? In …
Book Review: OpenIntro Statistics 3
A few days ago I was discussing on the Coursera forums what course to take next. Since I am interested in the Data Science path from Johns Hopkins, and a few of these courses have heavy roots into statistics, somebody suggested to me to have a look at Openintro Statistics. OpenIntro Statistics edition 3 is …