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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

AD

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 Naincy P

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Sep 15, 2019

good course

By ananya j

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May 22, 2019

Great depth

By Rajakumar

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Apr 11, 2019

Very Useful

By Jyotirmai B

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Dec 18, 2018

nice course

By Rutanshu D

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Mar 1, 2017

Excellent!!

By Aravind S

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Aug 12, 2016

Exceptional

By Rami A T

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Apr 26, 2016

Nice course

By shaikh z

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Jan 6, 2016

good course

By Davy R d A

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Jan 4, 2023

Awesome!!!

By VIJAYALAXMI B

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Mar 8, 2022

informaive

By Almothana M A M

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Jul 12, 2020

simplified

By Jesus B R

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May 22, 2020

Thank you.

By Lucas M

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Jan 1, 2020

Excellent!

By Amaia P d A M

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Oct 30, 2019

Fantastic.

By Georgia P

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Jun 3, 2018

Thank you!

By Emiliano A

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Nov 6, 2017

Excellent!

By Pedro H

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Dec 29, 2016

excellent!

By Sanjarbek D

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Oct 11, 2016

well done!

By Michael G

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Jun 14, 2016

Thank you!

By Grisell G G

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Mar 17, 2016

excelente!

By Moises S S T

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Feb 7, 2023

excelente

By 2K18/EE/219 T D

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Nov 18, 2021

very good

By LauraLuo

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Aug 11, 2021

very good

By Matthew P

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Apr 26, 2021

Very epic

By R N C

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Oct 15, 2020

excellent

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