Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
by jitix on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:43AM
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Do you have any recommendations on statistics for beginners?
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
by neovive on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:59AM
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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
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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
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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
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Not a MOOC, but I loved this: http://www.statsoft.com/Textbook/Basic-Statistics/button/1