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Statistics Capstone Project

Capstone Project: E-Commerce Analytics

Project Overview

You’re a data scientist at an e-commerce company. The CEO wants answers to critical business questions:
  1. Descriptive: What does our sales data look like? Any patterns?
  2. Inferential: Is our new checkout flow actually better?
  3. Predictive: What will sales be next month?
  4. Causal: What factors drive customer lifetime value?
This project integrates everything from the course! Think of this capstone as a dress rehearsal for real data science work. In practice, you never use just one statistical tool — you chain them together. Descriptive statistics tell you what to investigate, inference tells you what to trust, hypothesis testing tells you what to ship, regression tells you what drives outcomes, and time series tells you what comes next. The skill is knowing which tool to reach for at each decision point.
Estimated Time: 6-8 hours
Difficulty: Intermediate
Prerequisites: All previous modules
What You’ll Deliver: Complete analysis report with actionable insights

Part 1: Data Exploration & Descriptive Statistics

Exploratory Visualizations


Part 2: Inferential Statistics - A/B Test Analysis

The marketing team ran an A/B test on a new checkout flow. Let’s analyze the results.

Part 3: Regression - Predicting Customer Lifetime Value


Part 4: Time Series - Sales Forecasting


Part 5: Executive Summary


Submission Checklist

  1. Jupyter Notebook with all analysis code
  2. Executive Summary (1 page) for non-technical stakeholders
  3. Technical Report documenting methodology and assumptions
  4. Slide Deck (5-10 slides) for presentation
  • All statistical assumptions checked and documented
  • Confidence/credible intervals provided for all estimates
  • Visualizations are clear and properly labeled
  • Business implications clearly stated
  • Limitations acknowledged
  • Well-commented and readable
  • Functions documented with docstrings
  • Reproducible (random seeds set)
  • Error handling for edge cases

Summary

Congratulations! You’ve completed a full statistical analysis pipeline. These skills - from exploratory analysis to predictive modeling - are exactly what data scientists do every day. You’re now ready to tackle real-world problems with confidence!