Fundamentals of Statistics

Develop a deep understanding of the principles that underpin statistical inference: estimation, hypothesis testing and prediction. — Part of the MITx MicroMasters program in Statistics and Data Science.

Description

What you’ll learn

  • Construct estimators using method of moments and maximum likelihood, and decide how to choose between them
  • Quantify uncertainty using confidence intervals and hypothesis testing
  • Choose between different models using goodness of fit test
  • Make prediction using linear, nonlinear and generalized linear models
  • Perform dimension reduction using principal component analysis (PCA)

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