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Descriptive Statistics

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Overview

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Dive into a comprehensive video series on descriptive statistics, covering essential concepts over 13 videos in 2 hours and 30 minutes. Explore various measures of central tendency including arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means, as well as median and mode. Learn about data distribution through quartiles, percentiles, and deciles, and understand variability with range, interquartile range, and box-and-whisker plots. Delve into variance, standard deviation, and the coefficient of variation. Examine advanced topics such as skewness, kurtosis, standard error, confidence intervals, and proportions. Gain insights into statistical moments and their significance. Conclude with an in-depth look at covariance and correlation, providing a solid foundation in descriptive statistical analysis.

Syllabus

Descriptive Statistics: The Mean.
Arithmetic Mean | Geometric Mean | Harmonic Mean.
Descriptive Statistics: The median.
Descriptive Statistics: The Mode.
What are Quartiles? Percentiles? Deciles?.
Range | Interquartile Range (IQR) | Box and whisker plot.
Variance and Standard Deviation: Why divide by n-1?.
What is the Coefficient Of Variation?? (+ examples!).
What is skewness? A detailed explanation (with moments!).
What is Kurtosis? (+ the "peakedness" controversy!).
Standard Error (of the sample mean) | Sampling | Confidence Intervals | Proportions.
What are "moments" in statistics? An intuitive video!.
What is COVARIANCE? What is CORRELATION? Detailed video!.

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