Stanford Online Course On Statistics And Medicine Teaches Students Worldwide How To Interpret Data

This summer, nearly 16,000 students are learning how to interpret data and analyze provocative medical questions through Stanford’s free online course “Statistics in Medicine.”

The nine-week course is being offered through the university’s open-source platform, OpenEdX. A story published yesterday in Stanford Report offers a closer look at the format of the class and how it’s attracting students across the world. Mandy Erickson writes:

Early mornings, while her family sleeps, Tracy Womack logs on to her computer and watches Kristin Sainani, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford School of Medicine, explain the finer points of statistical methodology.