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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 Robert J

Aug 4, 2020

sometimes too fast, sometimes too slow

instructors were clear

R tutorials a little less clear

By Lim F F

Sep 22, 2018

Have struggled in this course but learned the basics of statistics, thanks for the lessons..

By Ravitej

Jul 20, 2017

Very nice, thanks a lot to trainers who helped me to get a brief idea on Basic statistics

By Anand L

Aug 2, 2020

The probability chapters could have been explained much more clearly with better examples

By javier v m

Mar 19, 2024

I can not complete the course because I did not use R, I am not interested to learn it.

By Vibhor B

Oct 22, 2020

Decent learning experience. Would help if the quiz answers contain explanations too

By Altaf G

Jan 24, 2017

Great introduction to statistics presented in a very interesting and engaging way.

By MASKE S H

Sep 16, 2020

Very Hard, But It's made in such a way that you can't leave without completing.

By Piyachart C

Jun 6, 2020

Good describes about statistics but It's good if subtitle has Thai language

By Esraa S

Apr 19, 2016

I would give five stars BUT

I wish that it isn't a must to finish R program.

By Valentino A

Feb 12, 2016

Good to get the intuition behind the theory, but it is a high level course.

By Paula C

Jul 5, 2020

Very good! hope they gave us more practice exercises previous to quices !!

By Michael M

Sep 11, 2016

The explanations in the videos were very helpful. A very useful course.

By Sneha G

Mar 6, 2017

Was a useful course for people wanting to learn statistical concepts!

By Younyil K

Mar 25, 2016

Good course, but it seems there are some errors in the quiz and labs

By Michelle B A

Jul 27, 2022

Fue un curso bastante intenso, fue buena la práctica realizada en R

By Caitlin T

Aug 11, 2016

Good course, although sometimes instructions/questions are unclear

By Dina B

Jun 4, 2016

Very nice and useful course, some small mistakes in R assignments

By Prasad

Feb 10, 2018

good for basic understanding and also crash course for revision

By DABU, J I G

Mar 28, 2021

thank you for everything I have new learning about statistics

By Neoman N

Jul 12, 2019

better explanation with selecting the most important topics!

By Margaretha

May 26, 2018

Enjoyed it tremendously - had to prep extra for exam though.

By ROBERSON F S

May 11, 2021

Curso requer bastante estudo e compreensão em linguagem R

By Elham L

Mar 2, 2020

Really great course, except for the mentor response.

By Eelco H

Mar 8, 2016

Good course to polish up your statistics knowledge.