Passion Driven Statistics

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Free Online Course: Passion Driven Statistics provided by Coursera is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Coursera. Passion Driven Statistics is taught by Lisa Dierker.

Overview
  • In this project-based course, you will have the opportunity to answer a question that you feel passionately about through independent research based on existing data. Students will have the opportunity to develop skills in generating testable hypotheses, preparing data for analysis, conducting descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, and presenting research findings.

Syllabus
    1. Statistical Software set up; Data, data sets and data documentation
    2. Data management
    3. Descriptive statistics and data visualization
    4. Comparing means (ANOVA), tests of categorical independence (Chi Square) and Correlation (r)
    5. Moderation
    6. Presenting statistical results
    Activities include:
    Exploring data documentation
    Running a basic program
    Data management
    Graphing
    Testing and interpreting bivariate associations and post hoc paired comparisons
    Testing and interpreting bivariate associations for population subgroups
    Writing about results

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