Staticians in the house?

[ProxyAmenRa]

Know of any good, free online courses on statistical analysis?

It turns out that the depth of statistics I learned at university is insufficient for what I am required to analyse.

Help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[ApostateAbe]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=online+statistics+courses

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

Ahh, yes, googling; that is the first step of the process I am engaged in but tapping the vast resources of individuals with pre-existing knowledge is just too hard to refuse!

Thankyou for your proposal, but sadly, it was surperfluous.

 

[ApostateAbe]

I took an online statistics course, but I had to pay for it. There are a very diverse variety of statistical methods, and you may simply wanna buy an introductory statistics textbook (maybe the cheep sort that are one version too old), if you didn't keep your old textbook, and study only the things you really need to study.

 

[Melllvar]

I don't know shit about statistics (beyond the most basic level), but you might be able to find a lot of free books on bittorrent sites. If you search for "math ebooks" or something like that on thepiratebay.org you can probably find a few hundred.

 

[TheHmmmm]

Just curious, what are you pursuing with statistics? I'm looking at an Actuarial Science major/concentration in college, so I'm wonder what field requires an in-depth knowledge of statistics.

 

[Vrecknidj]

Someone on CircvsMaximvs probably can help. Whether anyone there will help, of course, is entirely unknown.

Dave

 

[Da Blob]

If you happen to be able to purchase a copy of SPSS, the online support is pretty good... Also SAS has a really good website... Of course, business stats or other types of stats, is a whole different world...

Most of the stats, nowadays, are just computer generated so just a review of the terminology from a glossary and the ability to take existing programs and modify them slightly for one's own purposes can get one to at least appear to be sophisticated in Stats...

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

I do have a copy of spss. It is a nice functional program. The main reason why I must learn what I have never been taught before is that the various forms of statistical anlaysis require to be programmed as functions in a model I am to create. The model calibration is dependent on it. However, the model is not due for another 8 months. o_O

There is much work to be done in finding the weighting of relationships between the independent and dependent variables. SPSS will be handy for this process.

 

[Infinite Regress]

What area of stats do you require work on exactly?
Sounds like just linear regression? or is it stochastic processes which => ARIMA, GARCH, State space models etc.

Maybe then we could suggest a better website/book

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

student t distribution
t test
z test
confidence intervals
ANOVA
chi distribution
f distribution
hypothesis testing
linear and multiple variable regression

^_^

It has been a very long time since I have taken a course in statistics.

 

[LPolaright]

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/

MIT has loads of free courses online

it has 7 results for statistics courses, take a look at the lecture notes.

 

[Infinite Regress]

Ah, Stats 101

I know you asked for a website, but I highly recommend this book, if you can get it from your uni library:
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, D Moore

If I recall correctly, it has lots of practical examples with output from SPSS and Minitab.

Otherwise:
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/
http://www.stat-help.com/intro.pdf

Enjoy

 

[ProxyAmenRa]

Thank you for all your help. XD

I should have completed the statistics component of my maths degree a long time ago but the time table never suited me. So it was only the one course that did not cover much in depth.

 

[Amerally]

Statictica is pretty good too. Or Excel-analysis toolpack, you can get recipe how to do tests step by step.