Introducing Basic Statistics with R

Many years ago, Karl Pearson in 1892 said that “Statistics is the Grammar of Science”. Going by this statement, every science is incomplete without some elements of statistics. Science as used here, extends to all aspects of science – pure science, social science, art science and behavioural science.  Therefore, understanding statistics is essential to understand research in any of these sciences. In this era of BIG data, statistics is the grammar of Data Science; it is the foundation and fulcrum beneath most Data Science libraries. The goal of statistics is that discovering useful information, informing conclusion and supporting decision-making. The role of statistics in empirical decision making in every functional area of business cannot be over emphasised.

You will learn the basics of statistics in this course. You also will learn how they are calculated and how to evaluate and interpret them. We will start with discussion on methods of…