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I encounter this a lot at work. People needing more advanced stats skills for a new role and not having much training in it or if they did it was years ago. (I work in finance which has become increasingly quant and stats heavy - faster than training in it has). My advice: Figure out exactly what type of stats work your teams are doing. Make a list of those topics. Random example: are those Kolmogorov–Smirnov or Mann…
You can learn statistics, Bayesian reasoning, and a bunch of other stuff.
Sites like Coursera, edx, and Udacity all have courses for other presentations and applications of statistics at pretty much every degree of difficulty.
I encounter this a lot at work. People needing more advanced stats skills for a new role and not having much training in it or if they did it was years ago. (I work in finance which has become increasingly quant and stats heavy - faster than training in it has). My advice: Figure out exactly what type of stats work your teams are doing. Make a list of those topics. Random example: are those Kolmogorov–Smirnov or Mann…
Thanks. Any idea how to go about finding a tutor?
Others on here might have input on websites that do this.
We use pretty advanced stats at work so I cold emailed a professor at a local university and he was able to connect to grad students (they get these types of emails more than one thinks).
If interested, if I remember it was ~$120 an hour, the tutor had a PhD already and was doing postdoc. 3 hours a week with a tutor combined with self study at home for about 2 months before feeling "ready".
The self study never stops of course.
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Thanks. Any idea how to go about finding a tutor?
Where you located? Likely a local tutoring company can find one for you at the skill level you need. Others on here might have input on websites that do this. We use pretty advanced stats at work so I cold emailed a professor at a local university and he was able to connect to grad students (they get these types of emails more than one thinks). If interested, if I remember it was ~$120 an hour, the tutor had a PhD al…
Coursera https://www.coursera.org/browse/data-science/probability-and...
Coursera - Making sense of Data http://academictorrents.com/details/a0cbaf3e03e0893085b6fbdc...
MIT 6.041 Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61MdtwGTqZA...
Statistics 110: Probability - Harvard https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6...
Udacity also has few courses on Statistics.
I encounter this a lot at work. People needing more advanced stats skills for a new role and not having much training in it or if they did it was years ago. (I work in finance which has become increasingly quant and stats heavy - faster than training in it has). My advice: Figure out exactly what type of stats work your teams are doing. Make a list of those topics. Random example: are those Kolmogorov–Smirnov or Mann…
What's the nuance? (Serious question)
You shouldn't try to learn stat on par with your teams. Learn to ask the right questions.
If you prefer learning by doing then Elements of statistical learning would give you some modern skills plus add good questions (model testing and prediction are imho more important than base skills, and central to the work of Tibshirani et.al.) to your book.
I think the coaching approach in the other response thread is worthwile as well. If you weren't really into stats before and haven't read up when it wasn't part of your day job, the route of learning the skillset seems a detour. Possible if motivated ofc, but you need advice on managing stat heavy teams. That is a different, though related ballpark.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5102DFDC6790F3D0
Very well explained.