QUANTitative Analysis & Statistics

Tips for Learning

The Big Picture

Glossary

• Statology - Sells a course, but has good short tutorials for tons of topics. For review/conceptual understanding and software.
• It’s All Greek (Stats With Cats) - Divides terms into Named Things, Created Words, and Alternative Meanings

Math & Data Basics Review

These resources are designed to review the math needed for university-level students about to take a statistics course.

• Basic Math Refresher & Assessment for 511 (George Mason University Schar School)
  • Suggested Kahn Academy Videos to prepare for the screening Exam, many from Statistics & Probability
• Video: What Maths are Essential when you do Statistics? ~8.5 min Research By Design
  • Order of Operations, Rounding, Formulas, Summation
• Basic Math and Statistics Review for PSYC 480 (William B. King, Coastal Carolina University)
  • This is old and for an advanced statistics class, but the information is useful and important. .
  • See especially: Greater than and Less Than and Proportions & Percents

This is written for a general audience and covers both math and basic data skills.

• Math is Fun - Though geared younger, it is friendly and useful.
  • Number Skills, including Multiplying by Zero, Signed Numbers, Square Roots and Decimals
  • Using and Handling Data including Center, Variance, Percentiles / Outliers, Cumulative Tables
  • And other concepts that you may need to know or could help to have familiarity with
    • Frequency Distributions, Histograms, Box plots, and Scatter Plots
    • Normal Distribution, Confidence Intervals, Chi-Square, Correlation, and Regression