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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 Rhea R

Jun 16, 2020

This course is really informative with a lot of interesting examples that help to understand.

By Apurva V

Jun 9, 2020

The content of the course is nicely designed to clear basic fundamentals with examples.

Thanks

By Serimbetov Z

Sep 12, 2017

The course covers the essentials of statistics with really interesting and engaging examples!

By Kristin C

Jun 14, 2017

A great introduction and overview to statistics (or a bit of revision) - very worth the time.

By Sergio D

Apr 12, 2016

Excellent course. Very well structured. Videos are excellent and explanations are very clear.

By Bingyang H

Jun 20, 2020

I feel that this course is very systematic and it teaches many basic and important concepts.

By Lamia A O

Aug 29, 2017

Digestable and understandable. Many thanks for your time and efforts! Very much appreciated.

By Pierre B

May 7, 2017

Really interesting, pedagogical and well-structured course. Thank you very much to the team!

By 刘学涛

Jul 18, 2016

it is very useful for learning basic satistics. really awsome,you won't regret to choose it.

By Alexander B

Apr 20, 2016

It's a very good course to start learning statistics! I love instructors, they are so funny!

By Anthony A G

May 30, 2021

Excellent coverage, simple and concise explanations, excellent illustrations and examples!

By shalini

Jul 31, 2019

Easy to understand, you can see that a lot of effort has been put into the course material.

By Md Y A

Dec 28, 2017

I have learned a lot from this course. Thanks for such a great Introduction to Statistics.

By Jason F D

Jul 14, 2021

Entertaining and self-contained. Highly recommend for a great introduction to statistics!

By Siddartha K

Mar 11, 2021

I felt that introduction to probability, in week 3 and week 4, was kinda rushed through.

By Rajesh Y

Oct 31, 2020

This course is for those who really want to learn difficult concepts in most simple way.

By Francois l

Mar 12, 2016

Very basic material for statistics, exposed with humor! Thank you for this great course!

By Megha

Jun 11, 2020

Very nice course. I found it very useful. Things are explained in a very simple manner.

By adarsh i n

Jun 29, 2017

Great class. Starts from the basics and explains the concepts with very great examples.

By mohamed a m

May 9, 2021

It was really hard course but so useful and Informative, Great Course, Thank you a lot

By Deleted A

Mar 2, 2021

It helped me in understanding statistics more and it enhances my ability in analyzing.

By V J S G

Aug 18, 2020

Well designed course which created lot of interest to complete the program. Thank you.

By Valeria I

Apr 19, 2020

Very well explained in the videos. The examples given helped very much to understand.

By Maristela H

Jan 22, 2020

This course has a fantastic explanation of Statics concepts. The examples are perfect.

By Ramesh M

Mar 31, 2016

These concpets are explained in a clear and simple methods. Thats helpful to me.

Thanks