{"id":41,"date":"2013-01-13T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/?p=41"},"modified":"2013-01-13T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T17:21:12","slug":"udacity-introduction-to-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/udacity-introduction-to-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"udacity Introduction to statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.udacity.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"udacity logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.udacity.com\/media\/img\/logos\/Udacity_logo.png\" width=\"89\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>I was asked to post a few comments about the <a title=\"link to udacity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.udacity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Udacity<\/a> course I recently enrolled on. I decided to try the <a title=\"introduction to statistics at udacity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.udacity.com\/overview\/Course\/st101\/CourseRev\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction to Statistics course<\/a> as a bit of a refresher. I have studied statistics in the past but thought I needed to revise a little as it had been quite a few years.<\/p>\n<p>Udacity use a combination of short video tutorials, quizzes and forums, and there&#8217;s a forum. I stuck to the videos and quizes. I did post a few questions and answers on the forum. The course was great, the tutors voice (you don&#8217;t really see him) was full of energy and encouraged you to listen and move through the course.<\/p>\n<p>What did I get from the course?<\/p>\n<p>A good revision in statistics using some interesting topics.<br \/>\nAn understanding of the difference between a casual relationship and correlation. During the course we were asked to post examples where the two are confused; generally to imply a shocking relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding statistics does help in my job. I might need to find some statistical value regarding the suitability of a web server to handle a number of requests based on some tests I have carried out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m intending to enroll on a few more courses too.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to post a few comments about the Udacity course I recently enrolled on. I decided to try the Introduction to Statistics course as a bit of a refresher. I have studied statistics in the past but thought I needed to revise a little as it had been quite a few years. Udacity [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[4,3,5],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics","category-work","tag-learning","tag-udacity","tag-vle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonbailey.net\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}