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QUANTitative Analysis & Statistics: More: Reference

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Foundational knowledge, fast!

  • Cause vs Effect
  • Statistical Significance vs Practical Important
  • No Effect vs No Statistical Significant Effect
  • Sources of Bias
  • Are coincidences really improbable?
  • Confusion of the inverse
  • Averages and Variability

Covers all the basic concepts underlying statistics and hypothesis testing with no formulas in 30 min:

  • data types
  • distributions
  • sampling and estimation
  • hypothesis testing
  • p-values
  • Bonus Segment: p-hacking (12 min)

Not sufficient alone, but useful as a way to identify the crucial concepts and see how everything fits together. Despite the goal, the pace is not too fast with interesting examples from basketball and a good narrator.

  • Statistics is learned by doing
  • Understanding comes with doing
  • The Big Picture
  • Make Technology your Friend
  • Lots of resources to help

Terms and Definitions

The videos are grouped by label, but not in playlists. Here are the categories:  

  • 1. Descriptive Statistics (1.1-1.7) 2-8 min each
    • The Five Number Summary, Boxplots, and Outliers (1.6) ~5.5 min
  • 2. Correlation & Regression (2.1-2.4) 3-8 min each
  • 3. Research Methods (3.1-4.2) - 2-7 min each
  • 5. Normal Distributions (5.1-5.3) - 7-10 min each
    • Density Curves and their Properties (5.1),
    • The Normal Distribution and the 68-95-99.7 Rule (5.2),
    • Z-Scores, Standardization, and the Standard Normal Distribution  (5.3)
  • 7. Sampling Distributions  (7.2) ~11 min

Interactive Learning

See the Collections tab for sites with multiple interactives.

Suggested Tools for Common Topics

Collections

Play with the central limit theorem, sampling, p-values, regression residuals, and best fit lines.

  • Interactive applets (StatCrunch/Pearson Education) - a large collection of standard introductory applets
  • Statistics Visualizations (UBC Zoology Department) - a small collection of interactives with real data
  • Jamovi and JASP Modules (links to video demo) - small collections of standard introductory demonstrators

More Advanced/Complex

Math & Data Fundamentals

Designed for university-level students about to take a statistics course.

Improve Your Computer Skills

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  • If you think you need it: Computer Literacy for Mac or Windows

     

    Essentials of...

    * Indicates the most important videos (titles differ slightly across video series):

    • Section 1. Getting Started: Interface, Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Section 2/3. The Filing Cabinet: Browse through folders*, Folder Structure*, Folder Shortcuts, Create and rename folders*, Copy and move files, Zip and unzip archive files, Save files within an application
    • Section 4/2. Launch and Use Applications: Launch Applications, Quit Applications*, Customize the Dock/Start menu, Multitask
    • More Videos: Use the exercise files (Introduction), Save files within an application* (Depends on OS)
    • More for macOS: Beyond clicking, Set whether apps reopen after restart*, Use full-screen and split view*, Get info and preview files with Quick Look, Show or hide file extensions, Understanding the right click, Install software*
    • More for Win: Understand OneDrive, Customize the File Explorer interface OR Show or hide file extensions

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More for macOS from macmost on YouTube (video) 

More for Windows on Computer Hope (written)

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