Statistics & Probability

Learn statistics with any of the resources in this section, from online classes to videos to apps, and more. Statistics is critical to understand fully if you're considering a career in Data Science or as an analyst. Topics in Statistics typically include combinations, permutations, means and averages, standard deviations, correlation, probability, and distributions.

What is Statistics & Probability?

Statistics is the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities and drawing conclusions from it. The term statistics refers to the data collected, while the term probability refers to the likelihood that an event will occur.

Probability is the branch of mathematics that deals with the analysis of random events. Probability is used to determine the likelihood that an event will occur. Probability is also used to analyze the behavior of random variables.

Statistics & Probability Resources

Life of Fred: Statistics, Expanded Edition

This book contains more statistics than is usually taught in a college course. It covers… Descriptive Statistics (averages, measures of dispersion, types of distributions) Probability Bayes' Theorem From a Given Population Determine W...

Introductory Business Statistics

Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical busine...

The Manga Guide to Statistics

The Manga Guide to Statistics will teach you everything you need to know about this essential discipline, while entertaining you at the same time. With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics called manga and serious educational content, the...

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation&#821...

Introductory Statistics

Introductory Statistics follows scope and sequence requirements of a one-semester introduction to statistics course and is geared toward students majoring in fields other than math or engineering. The text assumes some knowledge of intermediate algeb...

Probability and statistics

Practice probability and statistics skills on IXL, have fun, and win awards!...

Worldmapper

Hundreds of free world cartograms that resize each country according to data instead of land area.

Gapminder Tools

Free interactive bubble charts that let students explore world development data for every country since 1800.

BUS204: Business Statistics

This course will introduce you to business statistics, or the application of statistics in the workplace. Statistics is a course in the methods for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data. If you have taken a statistics course in the past, you ma...

Data, Probability and Statistics

Topics covered: Finding a central value Mean value Median value Modal value Quartiles and percentiles Standard deviations Correlation Probability Combinations and Permutations Binomial distribution Normal distribution...

How Likely?

These upper primary activities explore likelihood and chance....

Statistics Help

Topics: Arithmetic mean Combinations Geometric mean Median Mode Rolling the dice...