Statistics/Probability Videos for Beginners

Question

There was already a request for Mathematical Statistics Videos, but it explicitly asked from people for

videos that provide a rigorous mathematical presentation of statistics. i.e., videos that might accompany a course that use a textbook mentioned in this discussion on...

So at the same time I am wondering, what recommendation do you have for stat/prob - 101 - video courses?

Answer 1

I think a number of the suggestions put forward on the mathematical statistics video question probably fall in the stats 101 category:

• http://www.khanacademy.org/#Statistics: series of short videos on introductory statistics
• http://www.khanacademy.org/#Probability: series of short videos on introductory probability
• Math and probability for life sciences: A whole university course introducing statistics and probability.
• I also have a list of maths and statistics videos with a few others.

The Stat 579 Videos on statistical computing in R are also quite good:

• http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p31588910/
• http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p45341752/
• http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p39131597/
• Factor & reshaping data
• Debugging & data aggregation
• Data aggregation & maps
• Data aggregation & maps (copy?)
• LaTeX and Sweave
• Random numbers, basic Simulations
• Permutations & data from the web
• Text & Patterns
• Databases

Answer 2

I would suggest Statistics 401 (from Iowa State University). This is the link for Lesson 1. There are 64 lectures in total. (Here is the last one). Unfortunately, I haven't found the links gathered together in one page. I think also that lessons 21,26 and 39 are missing. However, I don't remember having any problem in following the course). You can also find the handouts for this class posted here.

Some other introductory courses in Statistics are:

Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business

Basics of probability and statistics

Lesson Videos for Statistics

2007 SLUO Lectures on Statistics

Answer 3

GD047 linked to a UC Berkeley video on statistics, and I had another one. It's similar to MIT's Open Courseware (maybe a little lower quality). This one is for the Intro Statistics and Probability Class. It unfortunately only has 9 episodes, but it's free :).

UC Berkeley STATS 20 Webcast

Answer 4

Harvard's Stat 110 Probability taught by Joseph Blitzstein is available on iTunesU or Academic Earth.

Answer 5

You should definitely consider the Stats courses on Udacity.

ST101: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/st101/CourseRev/1

There is also a ST095 course on Udacity, which I would have linked to but the link was blocked in this answer. Replace the 101 in the above link with 095.

EdX, which is a consortium between Harvard, MIT and Berkeley also has a Stats course from Berkeley

http://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/Stat2.1x/2013_Spring/about

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

I've studied from John E. Freund's Mathematical Statistics with Applications (7th Edition) at Freiburg University. It is indeed a good book, but you would also need a solutions manual to it because the excercises at the end of each chapter are not trivial.