MIT 18.650 Statistics for Applications, Fall 2016 - 1. Introduction to Statistics

*NOTE: This video was recorded in Fall 2017. The rest of the lectures were recorded in Fall 2016, but video of Lecture 1 was not available. MIT 18.650 Statistics for Applications, Fall 2016 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/18-650F16 Instructor: Philippe Rigollet In this lecture, Prof. Rigollet talked about the importance of the mathematical theory behind statistical methods and built a mathematical model to understand the accuracy of the statistical procedure. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu