[R] General help - online statistics courses?

[Paul Hiemstra]

 And do take a look at Open Courseware:

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

cheers,
Paul

On 09/09/2011 09:30 AM, Paul Hiemstra wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> You could also consider following a statistics course at a university
> near you, if you can convince your boss to give you the time. Maybe an
> "Introductory Statistics" course is all you need.
>
> cheers,
> Paul
>
> On 09/08/2011 04:49 PM, kensuguro wrote:
>> I understand this isn't a r specific question.  I'm switching departments to
>> work with the analytics team at my company as a "service" side manager to
>> better incorporate the analytics process into product design / production. 
>> We're an online gaming company.
>>
>> As I'm going through tools like R, rapidminer, tableau, I was also thinking
>> that I should get some formal training in statistics, since my formal
>> background is in media arts - it's quite a jump..  I was wondering if there
>> was a single go to place for online courses for statistics.  I've checked
>> out statistics.com and have found a bunch of online courses from various
>> universities, but it's very difficult to find info about how the courses are
>> different from each other, which ones aren't worth it, etc..
>>
>> I'd greatly appreciate any advice.  I apologize in advance if asking here
>> was inappropriate.
>>
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