Science Journalism: Crash Course Statistics #11

Give learners the freedom to learn about hypothesis testing. The 28th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series focuses on degrees of freedom and effect size. It looks at how these concepts relate to t-tests and t-distributions.

A statistic of interest is often affected by multiple variables. Continuing from the previous lesson in the Crash Course Statistics playlist, the instructor explains how to apply the ANOVA calculations to multiple variables that have an...

It's normal to want to learn about normal distribution. The 19th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series focuses on how means of sample distributions show a normal distribution. It looks at the Central Limit Theorem and also...

There is growing evidence that suggests the results of many studies are not reproducible. The 31st lesson of the Crash Course Statistics playlist discusses possible causes of the problem and identifies solutions since producibility is...

Different statistical models tell people unique information about data. The 35th lesson in the Crash Course Statistics series describes two different statistic models: ANOVA and Repeated Measures ANOVA. The narrator of a short video...

Chime in and learn about chi-square tests. An informative video describes when chi-square tests would be appropriate and how to perform chi-square tests. It looks at three different types: the goodness of fit test, the test of...

Let the machines do what they do best. The 37th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series focuses on unsupervised machine learning. It describes two methods, k-means and hierarchical clustering, and provides examples for each.

Combine multiple inputs to get one output. An engaging video discusses neural networks and how they work on a basic level, that of taking several inputs and determining a single output. Using examples, the narrator defines different...

Keep your knowledge of distributions in shape. An informative YouTube video describes how to analyze data using the shape of the data distribution. The seventh installment of the Crash Course Statistics series looks at normal...

You'll probably end up thinking about randomness the next time you eat fries. The 17th video in the Crash Course Statistics series uses an analysis of McDonald's french fries to look at the mean and expected value of random...