Statistics in Five Minutes
Learning statistics is required for most students in business, engineering, and social sciences. In business schools, especially the ones accredited by AACSB, more than four million students are pursuing a diploma or degree in business administration. They all must take at least one course in introductory statistics.
The advances in computing technology, such as the software’s user-friendliness, the ready availability of interesting data sets, and free online resources, including tutorials, should have made learning statistics easier. This, however, is not the case.
Learning statistics, despite the advances in technology, continues to be the Achilles heel for most undergraduate and numerous graduate students. We have put together resources for students to be able to master the fundamental aspect of statistical analysis in small doses of five-minute lessons and have made them available at:
The five-by-five-by-five structure
While working collaboratively with IBM Canada, I have produced a series of 50 five-minute videos that cover the fundamentals of introductory statistical analysis. The 50 videos are divided into two courses: Statistics 101 and Statistics 201. Here is the structure for each course.
Hence in small doses of five-minute videos, you can learn the fundamentals of statistical analysis. We created these resources to help students overcome their fear of or reluctance to master statistical analysis. Here is a short video describing our motivation to develop these resources.
The videos are organized logically to facilitate learning, where each video contributes to learning materials covered in the proceeding videos.
Why SPSS?
We have illustrated statistical concepts using perhaps one of the easiest-to-learn statistical software, IBM SPSS Statistics . I have been using SPSS since 1994. Thousands of universities and colleges across North America, Europe and Australasia have adopted SPSS for courses in statistics. Thus, the odds of an introductory course in Statistics being taught using SPSS are high.
We have adopted SPSS to illustrate statistical concepts described in the lessons. The videos, though, explain fundamentals so the students can use any other software of their choice. If you cannot access SPSS, you can use a freeware, BlueSky Statistics , instead.?
Materials
Most of the material covered in the 50 videos is based on three chapters from Murtaza Haider’s book, Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics . We have provided draft versions of Chapters 4 and 5 and the printed version of Chapter 6 under Materials to assist students with learning. Also available under Learning are data sets, SPSS scripts and output for students to practice.
Acknowledgements
These videos result from a collaboration with IBM and their initiative to support data science, including https://cognitiveclass.ai/ and Big Data University, its earlier incarnation. We acknowledge their support and motivation that helped us produce these 50 videos.
So, fear statistics no more. Take the first step and Click on Statistics 101 .
?Topics Covered in Statistics 101
A World Filled with Data
Welcome to Statistics
Data Visualization
All about data
SPSS for Statistics
SPSS in 5 minutes
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Introducing Data
Types of Data
Mean Median Mode
Measures of dispersion
Statistics by datatypes
Probability
Statistics in Action
Statistics by groups
Visualization of group statistics
Pivot Tables
Crosstabs
Correlation
Data Visualization
Visualization fundamentals
Descriptive and statistical charts
Scatterplots
Statistical charts
Timeseries charts
Using Statistics to see if Beauty Pays
Does beauty pay?
Weighted means and standard deviations
Data wrangling
Descriptive statistics
Reproducibility with syntax
Data Modeling and Advanced Analytics
1 年Thank you for sharing. I remember first using SPSS in 2010 for analyzing survey results with ANOVA tests. To be honest, I regret that I never learnt it fully. It has so many wider applications.