THE INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSES AT STATISTICS.COM

Statistics.com offers a full sequence of introductory courses in statistics, plus a single course that is a survey of basic topics. These courses have been developed and taught by leading textbook authors and authorities on teaching statistics with the needs of the introductory student in mind. Our goal is real understanding, not cookbook learning, and even the most anxious novice (as well as the expert!) will benefit from our rich array of courses that provide a bit of repetition and overlap, as well as multiple perspectives on a sometimes difficult topic.

Are you taking these courses for credit? To satisfy a requirement? To update your skill set?

The American Council on Education (ACE) has approved two of these courses, Intro 1 and Intro 2 (together they constitute the equivalent of an undergraduate introductory course in statistics), as part of its "credit recommendation service." Learn how it works here. If you enroll with ACE, you will receive marks on homework and a scheduled final exam (learn more about the exam process here). If you pass both Intro 1 and Intro 2, you will receive a transcript from statistics.com, via ACE.

If you do not need academic credit, but still need to show that you took these courses, you can obtain a "certificate of completion" directly from statistics.com. Certificates of completion confer "continuing education credits" (CEU´s), and not academic credit. They require successfully completing the course (which includes the homework, but not a final exam - the final exam is required only if you are seeking academic credit via ACE).

MULTI-COURSE TUITION PACKAGES: You can register for a single course (click on the course title below), or you can register online (or use this printed order form for a package of 3 or 4 courses. You will be asked which dates you want to register for, and you will be able to include gaps, in case you are not able to take all courses in a row.

THE COURSES

Introduction to Statistics for Beginners:

This course is a preliminary course, to acquaint you with the basic concepts of statistics, and to prepare you to work with statistical software.

Prerequisite: None

Who should take this course: This course is designed as an entry point for Intro 1 and 2. If you have not had any probability or statistics, if you were exposed to these subjects a long time ago and are not comfortable with your command of them, or if you are not confident of your ability to handle statistical software, you should take this course.

Introduction to Statistics 1 and Introduction to Statistics 2:

Taken together, these two courses provide the equivalent of an undergraduate semester course in statistics. Intro 1 covers statistical analysis with one variable, and Intro 2 covers statistical analysis with multiple variables, including an introduction to regression. At the request of statistics.com, The American Council on Education (ACE) has reviewed these two courses and recommends that they be recognized as the equivalent of a 3 credit undergraduate course in statistics. This is part of the "credit recommendation service" of ACE; click here for instructions on obtaining academic credit.

Prerequisite: You should be familiar with the material covered in either Introduction to Statistics for Beginners, or, alternately, Survey of Statistics for Beginners. You should also be familiar with the use of a statistical software package of your choice -- please see our recommendations.

Who should take these courses: You should take these courses if you require the equivalent of an undergraduate course in introductory statistics, or if you are planning to take additional courses at statistics.com.

Note: AP teacher session of Intro 1 and 2: There are summer sessions of Introduction to Statistics 1 and Introduction to Statistics 2 that are especially suited to Advanced Placement Statistics teachers who need to tune up their statistical skills. They are taught by Dave Bock, co-author of Stats: Modeling the World, a leading AP statistics text, and the text used in these summer sessions. Click here for more information.

Introduction to Statistics 3:

This course covers correlation, ANOVA and multiple regression, topics that were introduced in Intro 2. This course should be taken by anyone planning to progress to additional statistics.com courses.

Prerequisite: You should be familiar with the material covered in Intro 1 and Intro 2.

Who should take this course: You should take this course prior to taking statistics.com courses in statistical analysis or modeling.

Note: If you do plan to continue with additional statistics.com courses, an ideal course to tackle after Intro 3 is Regression.

Survey of Statistics for Beginners:

This course is designed as a brief survey of statistical concepts, with an emphasis on illustrating probability and the foundations of statistical inference via simulation/resampling.

Prerequisite: None

Who should take this course: Even though this course says "for beginners," we strongly recommend this course to anyone who wants to get a more solid background in statistical inference (hypothesis testing), via simulation. Although it is not designed as a component of the "Introduction to Statistics" sequence discussed above, this course is an alternate way to prepare for Intro 1 courses.

Introduction to Resampling:

Inferential statistics (hypothesis testing and confidence intervals) is, at its core, all about the behavior of samples drawn from larger, hypothetical populations. This course approaches this often confusing subject from an entirely empirical and user-friendly perspective: take lots of samples (by computer) and see how they behave.

Prerequisite: None

Who should take this course: Students learning statistics who want an understanding and appreciation of hypothesis tests and confidence intervals that is both deeper and easier-to-understand than that gained from a traditional formula approach.