Probability and Statistics for Business and Data Science (Udemy.com)
Learn how to apply probability and statistics to real data science and business applications!
Created by: Jose Portilla
Last updated September 2019
What you will learn
- Understand the basics of probability
- Be able to implement basic statistics
- Understand how to use various statistical distributions
- Apply statistical methods and hypothesis testing to business problems
- Understand how regression models work
- Implement one way and two way ANOVA
- Understand Chi Squared Tests
- Be able to understand different types of data
How it compares
Against the other 461 rated Udemy courses in Data Science on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 46% of them
- Reviews8,139#30 of 462 by number of reviews
- Length5.2 hoursshorter than 66% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2019earlier than 92% of them
Quality Score
Overall Score : 90 / 100
Course Description
Welcome to Probability and Statistics for Business and Data Science!
In this course we cover what you need to know about probability and statistics to succeed in business and the data science field!
This practical course will go over theory and implementation of statistics to real world problems. Each section has example problems, in course quizzes, and assessment tests.
We’ll start by talking about the basics of data, understanding how to examine it with measurements of central tendency, dispersion, and also building an understanding of how bivariate data sources can relate to each other.
Afterwards we’ll dive into probability , learning about combinations and permutations, as well as conditional probability and how to apply bayes theorem.
Then we’ll move on to discussing the most common distributions found in statistics, creating a solid foundation of understanding how to work with uniform, binomial, poisson, and normal distributions.
Up next we’ll talk about statistics, applying what we’ve learned so far to real world business cases, including hypothesis testing and the student's T distribution.
We’ll end the course with 3 sections on advanced topics, such as ANOVA (analysis of variance), understanding regression analysis, and finally performing chi squared analysis.
The sections are modular and organized by topic, so you can reference what you need and jump right in!
Our course includes HD Video with clear explanations and high quality animations, we also include extensive case studies to show you how to apply this knowledge to the real world.
We'll cover everything you need to know about statistics and probability to clearly tackle real world business and data science problems!
Including:
Measurements of Data
Mean, Median, and Mode
Variance and Standard Deviation
Co-variance and Correlation
Permutations and Combinations
Unions and Intersections
Conditional Probability
Bayes Theorem
Binomial Distribution
Poisson Distribution
Normal Distribution
Sampling
Central Limit Theorem
Hypothesis Testing
T-Distribution Testing
Regression Analysis
ANOVA
Chi Squared
and much more!
Not only do you get great technical content, but you’ll also have access to our online QA forums as well as our student chat channel. Where the TAs and myself are happy to help out with any questions you encounter! Upon finishing this course you’ll receive a certificate of completion you can post on your linkedin profile to show off to your colleagues, or even potential employers!
All of this content comes with a 30 day money back guarantee, so you can try out the course risk free!
So what are you waiting for? Enroll today and we'll see you inside the course!
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
8,139 Reviews
Jose Portilla
Jose Marcial Portilla has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University and years of experience as a professional instructor and trainer for Data Science, Machine Learning and Python Programming. He has publications and patents in various fields such as microfluidics, materials science, and data science. Over the course of his career he has developed a skill set in analyzing data and he hopes to use his experience in teaching and data science to help other people learn the power of programming, the ability to analyze data, and the skills needed to present the data in clear and beautiful visualizations. Currently he works as the Head of Data Science for Pierian Training and provides in-person data science and python programming training courses to employees working at top companies, including General Electric, Cigna, SalesForce, Starbucks, McKinsey and many more. Feel free to check out the website link to find out more information about training offerings.
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Reviews
By Geoffrey Santini on 12/17/2025
The course is synthetic but cover all relevant concepts in a very intuitive manner. I think it is a great course to build solid fundamental knowledge in probability & statistics for a student in any domain requiring application of these concepts for research purpose.
By Jesus Antonio Ramos on 11/3/2022
The course covers the basic concepts of probabilty and statistics, it's good if you're starting a career that need the basics. The instructor explains very clear. It would be great if real business problems were added to it.
By Ruggero Fabbiano on 12/14/2020
Amazing course. It doesn't dive into theoretical explanations, but it gives you all the tools to perform statistical analysis, inference and hypothesis testing. For someone (like me) that has already deeply seen all of this in his studies (a long ago :)) and "just" needs to refresh the tools, it's just perfect.
By Anil Kumar Sahu on 11/7/2020
The concept explanation is very good. This is a very good tutorial to learn probability and statistics.
By Monica Alonso Soria on 10/25/2020
more examples on continuous vs discrete data
By Venkatesh Prasad on 10/23/2020
Great course and fluent and lucid explanation for all topics.
By Shubham Sharma on 10/22/2020
This Course is really not at all worth taking, as the Instructor, Jose, just keep reading from his Slides without connecting the Concepts and Ideas.
It feels like memorizing the definitions or formulas.
I took his Python Bootcamp course, which seems bit relevant than this, but in his every course he just reads his slides like a book, and that's not worth. (No doubt he speaks very clear and soft, but, that's not what required in these Courses)
Try it out his Sample Preview videos.
By Basma Radwan on 10/20/2020
yes
By Shraddha Shukla on 10/16/2020
All important topics have been covered, attached assignments help to learn better. Very clean delivery of lectures
By Christopher Berry on 9/21/2020
I love the way Jose explains everything in all of his courses. This particular course is better than the statistics subject I'm currently doing at University.
By Shreyashi Mukhopadhyay on 9/21/2020
I was pleasantly surprised by the content of this course. Jose has done an excellent job with the content and explanation of every module. This makes the course very simple to understand and to the point for the student. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is looking to refresh their stats knowledge or getting started with statistics. This course should help cement many of the very important concepts which have been explained very simply. Thanks!
By Cameron Elvin on 9/20/2020
The course is straightforward and and well put together so far. Very accessible and is what I wanted.









