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Expected Value: E(X)
The gap between probability and statistics begins to become bridged in this video, where Sal explains the concepts of central and relative frequencies. Students who are transitioning between algebra and statistics will find this video...
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Poisson Process 1, Probability and Statistics
Sal's lesson begins with a word problem about the number of cars that pass by a certain point at any given time. Using (and explaining) the Poisson Process, Sal outlines the necessary assumptions and "mathematical tools" to solve this...
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The Hunger Games
The odds will be in your favor that young statisticians will volunteer to participate in this experiment. After watching a short video that is part of the PBS Math at the Core middle school collection, scholars engage in a lottery and...
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When Predictions Succeed: Crash Course Statistics #44
Statistics show people eat more berries when the weather is nice. Young entrepreneurs learn how stores use statistics like this to plan their advertising and sales strategies. The narrator uses various examples to show how important...
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When Predictions Fail: Crash Course Statistics #43
The world relies on statistics for important predictions like earthquakes, volcano eruptions, and winners of presidential elections. Examine some popular failed predictions and identify their flaws while watching the 43rd installment of...
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War: Crash Course Statistics #42
Discover the statistics war. The 42nd video in the Crash Course Statistics series introduces how statistics have proven valuable during wartime. The resource covers the use of statistics in breaking the German code, finding U-boats, and...
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Statistics in the Courts: Crash Course Statistics #40
Innocence hangs by a probability. An intriguing video discusses how statistics affect daily life, specifically in the courts. Looking at three court cases spanning several hundreds of years, the resource recounts how errors in statistics...
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Big Data Problems: Crash Course Statistics #39
The big, the bad, and the ugly of data. The resource picks up from the description of big data and discusses the possible problems. Using examples, the 39th video in the series of Crash Course statistics explains how some use big data...
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Supervised Machine Learning: Crash Course Statistics #36
Use math to help predict the future. Viewers of the 36th Crash Course video covering statistics hear about machine learning. They see how logistic regression, linear discriminant analysis, and K nearest neighbors are all models that help...
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The Replication Crisis: Crash Course Statistics #31
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...
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P-Hacking: Crash Course Statistics #30
Spot the fake research. The 30th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series explains p-hacking and the family wise error rate, which occurs when researchers attempt to weed out a statistically significant result even when one is...
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ANOVA Part 2: Dealing with Intersectional Groups: Crash Course Statistics #34
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...
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ANOVA: Crash Course Statistics #33
How do you account for multiple variables when analyzing data? Following a lesson on regression, the 33rd lesson in the Crash Course Statistics series examines the ANOVA, analysis of variances, method of determining differences...
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Chi-Square Tests: Crash Course Statistics #29
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...
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Degrees of Freedom and Effect Sizes: Crash Course Statistics #28
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.
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T-Tests: A Matched Pair Made in Heaven: Crash Course Statistics #27
Pair a video with your lesson on t-tests. Viewers of an informative YouTube video, the 27th part of the Crash Course Statistics series, study two sample t-tests and paired t-tests. They see which test would be appropriate for a situation...
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Test Statistics: Crash Course Statistics #26
From t to z, learn about the basics of test statistics. An engaging YouTube video discusses t-tests and z-tests to determine whether observed differences are statistically significant. The video also looks at how p-values play a role in...
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Bayes in Science and Everyday Life: Crash Course Statistics #25
You can bet on Bayes. Continuing from the previous video, scholars learn about Bayesian statistics and hypothesis testing. The 25th installment of the Crash Course Statistics series applies these concepts to continuous data and to...
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Confidence Intervals: Crash Course Statistics #20
Be confident about your ability to understand statistics. The 20th installment of the Crash Course Statistics playlist, the informative YouTube video describes the meaning of confidence intervals and how they relate to normal...
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P-Value Problems: Crash Course Statistics #22
Ponder the problems of p-values. After reviewing p-values from the last video, the narrator explains some drawbacks of using p-values for hypothesis testing in the 22nd installment of the Crash Course Statistics series. The video...
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Real-Life Math | Data Analyst
Data is just waiting for scholars to analyze. By viewing a video of a data analyst explaining his job and the math that surrounds it, scholars begin a lesson on data collection and analysis. Groups develop questions for a poll on teenage...
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You know I’m all about that Bayes: Crash Course Statistics #24
Be brave, learn about Bayes. An informative video describes Bayes theorem and Bayesian hypothesis testing. It explains how this type of testing incorporates both statistics and beliefs about the hypothesis to wrap up the 24th installment...
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Playing with Power: P-Values Pt. 3: Crash Course Statistics #23
What went wrong?! The 23rd video in the Crash Course Statistics playlist focuses on errors that occur in hypothesis testing when using p-values. It describes Type I and Type II errors and explains how one type of error might be...
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How P-Values Help Us Test Hypotheses: Crash Course Statistics #21
It's my hypothesis that watching the video will have a statistically significant effect on your understanding of p-values. The 21st part of the Crash Course Statistics course focuses on null hypothesis significance testing. It explains...