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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by jitix on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:43AM (#16745756)
Do you have any recommendations on statistics for beginners?
Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by neovive on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:59AM (#16745954)
Udacity has two free introductory statistics courses that they recommend prior to starting their AI nanodegree program:

Intro to Descriptive Statistics [https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-descriptive-statisti...]

Intro to Inferential Statistics [https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-inferential-statisti...]

Khan Academy also has very in-depth coverage of statistics, starting from the basics. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability

Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by ycombinator_usr on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:32PM (#16747020)
if you want to focus on Statistical Learning, I can recommend Introduction to Statistical Learning Using R[1] by Prof. Hastie and Tibshirani.

[1]: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...

Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by harry8 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:42PM (#16750844)
I found the lectures entertaining and the exercises of a much lower quality. Not enough of them, shallow and ambiguously worded.

I got something like 90% on the edx MITx probability course and was barely getting 50% for the above mentioned Stanford stat learning course for the 5 weeks of it I completed. I mention the MIT course, (which I highly recommend fwiw) only to support my view that I don't think my experience is aptitude or workload related. But as ever YMMV.

Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken? by bbarn on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:33PM (#16750797)