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Numeracy (Mathematics and Statistics): Statistics

LinkedIn Learning Video: Everyday Statistics

Statistics help us make sense of the world around us. These numbers help everyone from political pollsters to fantasy football aficionados make informed calls based on the mountains of data at their disposal. In this weekly series, learn how to decode the statistics that pop up on a daily basis. Eddie Davila explores a new eclectic, real-world topic each week. Learn how stats are used to find the average score on a test, how casinos use stats to ensure that the house will usually win, and more.

Link to video on everyday statistics

LinkedIn Learning Video Collection: Statistics and Data Management

A collection of videos covering statistics foundations, Excel statistics essential training, big data management and others.

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Access the LinkedIn Learning Video Collection on Statistics and Data Management

The collection includes the following courses:

  • Statistics Foundations: 1
  • Statistics Foundations: 2
  • Statistics Foundations: 3
  • Excel Statistics Essential Training: 1
  • Excel Statistics Essential Training: 2
  • Learning Document Retention and Data Management
  • Big Data Foundations: Program Management
  • Integrating Tableau and R for Data Science
  • Python for Data Science Essential Training

LinkedIn Learning Video: SPSS Statistics Essential Training

This course takes a practical, visual, and non-mathematical approach to SPSS Statistics, explaining how to use the popular program to analyze data in ways that are difficult or impossible in spreadsheets, but which don't require you to master programming languages like Python or R. The course covers all the basics from importing spreadsheets, to making data visualizations, to calculating descriptive statistics. 

Link to video on SPSS statistics essential training

LinkedIn Learning Video: Python Statistics Essential Training

With this course, gain insight into key statistical concepts and build practical analytics skills using Python and powerful third-party libraries. The course covers several major skills: cleaning, visualizing, and describing data, statistical inference, and statistical modeling. All concepts are introduced by analyzing intriguing real-world datasets and discussed from a machine-learning perspective—which assumes that powerful computation can replace complex mathematics.

Link to video on Python statistics Essential Training 

Other resources

StatsTutor: an online support centre featuring a host of statistics resources. Includes case-study videos, facts and formulae leaflets, video tutorials, teach yourself booklets and tests/quizzes. The resources are from respected sources across the University sector, business and government organisations

Getting started with SPSS - a free course by Open University 

Khan Academy: lots of clear videos and activities on statistics and probability 

Loughborough University stats leaflets