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Statistics for Decision Making

Enough statistics to argue with a dashboard

AMTaught by Arun Menon

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About this course

A short, free course for people who have to act on numbers but were never taught what the numbers can and cannot support.

No derivations. Every idea is introduced through a decision somebody actually had to make, and every lesson ends with the question you should ask next time a chart is put in front of you.

Curriculum

9 lessons, 3m total

1 lesson is free to preview.

  1. 01Describing what happened

    3 lessons, 1m

    1. Why the average is usually the wrong summary0:20
    2. Spread, and why it matters more than the middle0:20
    3. Reading a distribution instead of a number0:20

  2. 02Deciding what it means

    3 lessons, 1m

    1. Sampling: what your data is not telling you0:20
    2. Confidence intervals in plain language0:20
    3. Significance, and the question it does not answer0:20

  3. 03Comparing things

    3 lessons, 1m

    1. A/B tests: what has to be true for one to work0:20
    2. Correlation, causation and the third variable0:20
    3. When to stop looking at the dashboard0:20
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