Is there better or fun way to learn or understand Statistics

[Biosapien]

Hi Everyone,

Could some explain on what is the best possible way to learn and understand statistics, because no matter how many times I learn, I couldn't follow the fundamentals or why we do that in first place. Thank you.

[Serpent]

Watch a tv series from 2005 called NUMB3RS.
They talk about all kinds of mumbo-jumbo and different mathematical concepts do come into it, but the basic point is to figure out what's most likely to happen next from the data provided by what happened before, compared the recorded averages of similar events.

[Reg_Prescott]

Hi Everyone,

Could some explain on what is the best possible way to learn and understand statistics, because no matter how many times I learn, I couldn't follow the fundamentals or why we do that in first place. Thank you.

Are you familiar with a company called "The Great Courses"? (I think they were previously known as "The Teaching Company").

http://www.teach12.com

They offer a wide range of lecture series, including (at least) one on statistics, many of which are taught by leading experts in the field.

My own personal faves: their superb 36-lecture course on the Philosophy of Science, and anything presented by Daniel N. Robinson.

Not cheap, but there may be ways of acquiring the goodies without coughing up an arm and a leg. Er, a friend told me.

[BadgerJelly]

khanacademy is free

[Biosapien]

Thank you all for sharing the source of e-learning.

[Scott Mayers]

Watch a tv series from 2005 called NUMB3RS.
They talk about all kinds of mumbo-jumbo and different mathematical concepts do come into it, but the basic point is to figure out what's most likely to happen next from the data provided by what happened before, compared the recorded averages of similar events.

I didn't like this for how it mystified statistics rather than clarify it. In a similar way, I didn't like the series CSI for its free licence to oversell the capacity of technology....like how some fuzzy picture could be re-rendered from a distinctive blur into perfect clarity. So I wouldn't recommend this to learn what statistics is about.

[Scott Mayers]

Thank you all for sharing the source of e-learning.

Statistics are more often abused then used appropriately by even relatively 'good' science. It's effectiveness for the hard sciences are better but also can falsely mislead people into a faulty INTERPRETATION of some theory, ...most especially quantum mechanics, for instance. But if one is good at it, one can sometimes catch interesting flaws that can make you be able to take advantage of "the systems", such as for many games of chance.

[Serpent]

I didn't like this for how it mystified statistics rather than clarify it. In a similar way, I didn't like the series CSI for its free licence to oversell the capacity of technology....like how some fuzzy picture could be re-rendered from a distinctive blur into perfect clarity. So I wouldn't recommend this to learn what statistics is about.

I thought he wanted to know what statistics is used for; what good it is, and wanted it to be fun.
Oh-wehl.

[Biosapien]

Hi everyone

The reason I want to know about statistics is because I work with the data which we are collecting as part of our research project. I have read several books but I still couldn't understand those fundamental concepts or how they function in analysing or interpreting the data. It simply makes me go crazy with theoretical reading with zero visualization of the concept or background information.