I really want to learn statistics, experiment design, and how to avoid or measure or model bias; haven't got a chance to learn it in uni, didn't seem to have much success with the coursera course (sure, I did their assignments, I didn't get much understanding out of it). what do?
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It's a matter of what sorts of data they typically have to work with, and how loosey-goosey they can get away with being. Both of those vary a lot. In medicine there are lots of experiments you can't do for ethical reasons, whereas physicists can torture electrons all they want.
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Anyway, if you know core statistics you can pick up the various methods used in different fields as you go. And that course actually might have taught you the required core, just not in such a way as to make you confident about it. Studying on one's own can be like that.
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