5 tips for getting better at statistics

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[tobewanad]

1. Use existing schemas or analogies: relate new material to old
2. Develop a generalization or abstraction to relate materials: look for patterns to overcome ambiguity
3. Learn a programming language to speed up calculations & visualizations, tinker with concepts
4. Ask and answer your own questions, the challenge and process help troubleshooting and learning
5. Most assumptions cant be verified, but they can be shared

Justin Sung covers some of the more general learning tips here, I highly recommend his channel!

[santiagodm]

Baby, stop the Montecarlo. Very normal got a new video!

[williamodonnell]

I remember really struggling with the idea of skewed distributions as it seemed to me that a skewed distribution would have a greater portion of the CDF in its half than the other, however it was always the other way around. Eventually I accepted my intuition was wrong and to this day, I remember it as whatever isn’t intuitive

[panizzutti]

Obsidian is really good for interconnecting ideas!

[Brandon-scrz]

my tip is when you’re doing textbook exercises don’t be afraid to start with the answer then work out the method/how it’s obtained. in all the stats classes i’ve taken, knowing HOW to get the correct answer is far more important than whether or not your math is mistake free.

and you will love your cheat sheet a lot more if you use it for the homework’s as well. my stats 1 professor said it should be your best friend for the entire course and that advice has served me well

[BsTonCeltics]

Thank you for the breakdown on how multicollinearity harms the model. That ended up being a question on my final

[avi]

The only class I took was mathematical statistics class. I liked and could understand the theory itself but I found the application really hard. I took the class as third year math major, and I was little bit aware of the probability theory and measure theory so understanding the theories was not bad at all, but, but the homework problems were real world applications questions, rather than proofs, so I had really hard time with it. I find statistics really interesting but I find it very difficult compared to classes like analysis, topology, algebra.

[panizzutti]

loved the tips! Will definetely follow them

[nestorv]

I felt similarly during my probability course for my masters in engineering. Instead of memorizing each type of random variable, I simply learned the 2 important processes: bernoulli and poisson. Discrete distributions (binomial, geometric, pascal) stem from the bernoulli process and the continuous ones (poisson, exponential, erlang) stem from a poisson process.

[moth]

Your videos are saving the stats section on my maths A level lmao. Thanks so much!

[jokmenen_]

I used to do all of these things but kind of got out of habit with them since I've started working. Gonna watch this video again tomorrow and try to implement them a bit more again. Thanks, very normal!

[superuser]

I honestly didn’t even touch null hypothesis until like a year into stats with ANOVA and started with distribution types, probability and random variables, summary mathematical statistics and then finally ANOVA. Honestly, with a solid foundation in math and stats to begin with, I would recommend the strategy to anyone

[alanbouwman]

Great video! I just took exam MAS-I (aguably the hardest general statistics exam out there). Wish I had seen this before I began studying😂. No cheat sheet allowed, so it's really important to find these patterns and understand what's really going on (understanding is a lot easier than memorizing hundreds of formula). Keep up the great work!

[CommDao]

13:06 - "You need to know the exact limits of your understanding, and you get that the fastest by just struggling with the ideas." ✊

[talenmud]

I'm currently studying the goodness of fit test and love how you explained it, it really helped me understand it that bit more.

[samuelm]

Good points! One thing I did in my masters that I didn't do in my undergrad was to sit down with the textbooks and actually read the formulas step-by-step instead of glossing over them and assuming I understood how they got from step 1 to step 7. Even found one or two errors this way! Which just goes to show how often people actually 'read' the maths!

[lordzekrom]

Tip from me: understand linear algebra first

[franciscodelapena]

One of the most helpful and enjoyable videos I've ever seen! Thanks!

[panizzutti]

Such a good video man, thank you so much for your time

[matematicaatope]

I hope that you get more subs bro! I like your content.