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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

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!

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.

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By Sen W

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Mar 30, 2016

Easy and Clear, I wish I could find this course a year earlier.

By Albert v S

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Feb 10, 2016

Good course, nice illustrations that really support the course!

By Lawrence N

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Aug 20, 2022

I learnt so much. The explanations and exercises were awesome

By Purva R

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Nov 11, 2019

Detailed explanations in the most simplest way to understand.

By Marco F

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Aug 13, 2018

Very demanding but rewarding. Excellent teachers and content.

By SUSHEEL Y

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Oct 27, 2016

It was a great course and method of teaching was exceptional.

By Tudor C

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Jan 22, 2016

Very good course, nice examples! Carry on with the good work!

By Nguyễn V H

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Jun 17, 2021

Thanks for the effort of the team to make statistics easier.

By Krishna K

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Jun 15, 2020

The Course was challenging to begin with, but well worth it,

By Huong L

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Jun 12, 2017

Course very well structured and easy for beginners to follow

By Xiwen O

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May 27, 2017

It's a very interesting and useful way to learn this course.

By Geetha S

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May 23, 2016

The concepts are explained very clearly. Thanks to the team.

By JONDEL S I

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Apr 3, 2020

i REALLY THE VIDEO CONTENT, BECAUSE ITS VERY COMPREHENSIVE.

By ANKIT S

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Mar 15, 2016

Hey its really fun to learn statistics this way. Great Job!

By Gautam R

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Apr 13, 2018

Really a great course ! The way of teaching is majestic :)

By Abdulelah A

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Jan 14, 2016

Perfect material, Perfect instructors, and perfect course!

By Masoud I

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Apr 19, 2021

It was great! Just weeks 3 & 4 could be presented better.

By Huang T

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Nov 29, 2020

A nice course, I really like it. Thanks for the teachers!

By Mingyang W

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Jul 9, 2019

thanks very much and i think that is a fantastic course .

By Jeni S

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Mar 12, 2016

Some of the concepts are very clearly explained. Loved it

By Lizette D F D

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Sep 9, 2020

Very interesting course! Professors explain very well :)

By Anh T T

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Jun 30, 2020

Very good course to cover the basic ideas of statistics.

By Michelle H

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Apr 17, 2017

These guys use the best examples to make statistics fun!

By Shibin T

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Jan 15, 2017

Great course! very intuitive. Great learning experience.

By Gabriel M

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Apr 10, 2017

I had a really great time with the material! Thank you!