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Statistical Thinking for Industrial Problem Solving, presented by JMP

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Price

Free

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Level

BEGINNER

Duration

6 h

About this course

Statistical Thinking for Industrial Problem Solving is an applied statistics course for scientists and engineers offered by JMP, a division of SAS. By completing this course, students will understand the importance of statistical thinking, and will be able to use data and basic statistical methods to solve many real-world problems. Students completing this course will be able to: • Explain the importance of statistical thinking in solving problems • Describe the importance of data, and the steps needed to compile and prepare data for analysis • Compare core methods for summarizing, exploring and analyzing data, and describe when to apply these methods • Recognize the importance of statistically designed experiments in understanding cause and effect

What you will learn

  • How to describe data with statistical summaries, and how to explore your data using advanced visualizations.
  • Understand statistical intervals, hypothesis tests and how to calculate sample size.
  • How to fit, evaluate and interpret linear and logistic regression models.
  • How to build predictive models and conduct a statistically designed experiment.