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IITM Stats 1: Statistics for Data Science I

4 qualifier weeks4 credits

Week by week

  1. Week 1

    Introduction and Types of Data

    Types of data · Descriptive and inferential statistics · Scales of measurement

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  2. Week 2

    Describing Categorical Data

    Frequency distributions · Graphing categorical data · Mode and median of categorical data

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  3. Week 3

    Describing Numerical Data

    Frequency tables for numerical data · Mean, median and mode · Quartiles and percentiles · Range, variance, standard deviation and IQR · Five-number summary

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  4. Week 4

    Association Between Two Variables

    Contingency tables and relative frequencies · Scatterplots · Covariance · Pearson correlation coefficient · Point bi-serial correlation

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Student notes

Official course page: Statistics for Data Science I on study.iitm.ac.in

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