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About the Course

Understanding statistics is essential to understand research in the social and behavioral sciences. In this course you will learn the basics of statistics; not just how to calculate them, but also how to evaluate them. This course will also prepare you for the next course in the specialization - the course Inferential Statistics. In the first part of the course we will discuss methods of descriptive statistics. You will learn what cases and variables are and how you can compute measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) and dispersion (standard deviation and variance). Next, we discuss how to assess relationships between variables, and we introduce the concepts correlation and regression. The second part of the course is concerned with the basics of probability: calculating probabilities, probability distributions and sampling distributions. You need to know about these things in order to understand how inferential statistics work. The third part of the course consists of an introduction to methods of inferential statistics - methods that help us decide whether the patterns we see in our data are strong enough to draw conclusions about the underlying population we are interested in. We will discuss confidence intervals and significance tests. You will not only learn about all these statistical concepts, you will also be trained to calculate and generate these statistics yourself using freely available statistical software....

Top reviews

PG

Apr 20, 2016

This is a nice course...thanks for providing such a great content from University of Amserdam.

Please allow us to complete the course as I have to wait till the session starts for week 2 lessions.

AV

Jun 27, 2022

Instructors have provided concise explanations of the concepts. There are many examples considered that make statistics easier to understand! Also, the illustrations are fancy. I enjoyed every video!

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By Ingo V

May 6, 2016

Very well done: a lot of effort put into this course, and it pays off.

By Venugopal B

Mar 15, 2016

Basic intro to Stats & R. Very good if you are starting either / both.

By Artem R

Jan 7, 2016

Have recently passed the first week and I should say that was awesome!

By EDILSON S S O J

Jul 20, 2017

Very Nice course!!! A simple and powerful introduction to Statistics!

By Fan Y

Jan 13, 2017

very clear and well-organized, one of my best experiences on coursera

By Sushil K

Mar 6, 2018

exceptional efforts! thank you for this surreal learning experience!

By Christopher A

Nov 21, 2016

Very engaging videos, good pace, easy to understand. Great job guys!

By Pramod N

Feb 6, 2016

Great presentation, easy to understand with good examples. Way to go

By Maria B O C

Nov 26, 2020

Love this course....explained everything so clear! thank yo so much

By Nikhil A

Jan 18, 2016

Loved presentation style. Very simple way to teach complex concept.

By Alvin M S

Jun 23, 2020

Excellent way to learn Basic Statistics with the help of R Studio.

By Gerhan S

Jan 3, 2020

Good course with clear video's with good sometimes funny examples.

By Sathyajith S M

Jul 24, 2020

This was an awesome intro to stats. I'm really thankful for this.

By Mohammed T

Mar 31, 2019

The best course to boost your confidence in statistics for career

By Solomon A

Oct 5, 2017

Great course. Covers many of the important aspects of statistics.

By bobbyray b

Mar 9, 2016

Well recorded video, clear and kind explanation, and interesting.

By josue l

May 12, 2022

C'est un trés bon cours qui répond complètement à mes exigences.

By Devarsh A

Nov 8, 2021

Great Course. Language R is difficult. Presentation in very nice

By Ariadna M

Apr 26, 2021

I loved the videos. The quizzes and final exam were really hard!

By L Z

Jul 16, 2020

Very infromative and hands-on course. Like especially the R-lab.

By Marjorie G

Jul 7, 2018

video lectures are awesome!!! this is a tough course, but fun!!!

By Güneycan S

Jul 11, 2016

Intuitive, clear, neither too fast nor too slow.. easy to follow

By Giulia P

May 29, 2016

The course is very well done and explained in a very simple way!

By Wanderson A d L

Mar 26, 2022

Excelente curso para quem esta iniciando, com teoria e prática.

By Abdulla A

May 6, 2021

Very helpful and simple. Clear explanation. Highly recommended.