Statistics (For Social and Life Scientists) OpenCourseWare: UC Berkeley's Free Bachelor Level Statistics Class

Published Mar 31, 2009

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Learn how statistics can inform decisions about real-world problems with this OpenCourseWare offered free by the University of California, Berkeley. 'Statistics: Statistical Inferences for Social & Life Scientists' is an online audio lecture series focusing on how statistics may be applied to life and social science. This course can benefit students working towards a Bachelor of Science in Statistics.

Statistics (Statistical Inferences for Social & Life Scientists): Course Specifics

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Statistics (Statistical Inferences for Social & Life Scientists): Course Description

This free OpenCourseWare from the University of California, Berkeley, serves as an introduction to statistics as applied to social and life sciences. Instructor Fletcher Ibser presents a series of lectures offered in streaming audio format that cover key topics such as percentiles, correlation, regression and probability. The lectures also look at issues that affect the validity and reliability of statistical results, such as response bias and sampling error. The course explains how statistical data is analyzed and used in real-world situations. It is recommended that students be familiar with high school algebra before taking this course. This material can be useful to students working on a bachelor's degree in Statistics.

This OpenCourseWare includes streaming audio of class lectures. To listen to these lectures free online, visit the course page for statistics for social scientists.

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