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I know MIT and Stanford have placed many videos online of their courses. Does anybody know of a course (with videos available online) of Applied Statistics?
I've been playing with R and the tool (from a technical side) is pretty straightforward. However, I'm quite clueless when it comes to the statistical side (regressions, recursive partitioning, etc). I've read a few course descriptions for Applied Statistics, and it seems to be exactly the type of course I'm looking for. However, I'd prefer it if there were videos I could watch online (as opposed to trying to find a local community college).
Are there any good videos for learning statistics? Preferably with a focus on R?
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Just found a Stanford Statistics 202 class via Hacker News that appears to be exactly what I'm looking for. It's a statistics course that uses R with full video lectures up on youtube.
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