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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 DINESHKUMAR U

Jun 28, 2020

Course composition and the subject matter explanation is great, Thanks for the team and the professor

By Ashish T

Feb 2, 2020

I loved this course. Learned a lot. I hope the team can make a similar course on bayesian statistics.

By Siddharth

Mar 6, 2016

Very nicely created. Gets a bit too fast paced in the middle but still well worth taking this course.

By Huynh L D

Feb 28, 2016

Awesome course, very friendly to people who want to start learning R and practicing it straight away!

By Diego A

Feb 25, 2016

Very dynamic and enjoyable class, great instructors and combination of theory and hands-on exercises.

By Shenglan Z

Oct 16, 2020

The teachers impart those knowledge in such a lively way, full of interesting examples and insights.

By Kornelis P

Mar 29, 2019

This is an excellent introductory course into statistics especially if you're a soccer/football fan.

By Paula B

Aug 28, 2017

Very easy going course!

I highly recommend it for people who is willing to start to learn statistics!

By Dahir M H

Feb 2, 2017

This course is a very interesting course. It introduces the world of statistics. It is a good start.

By Julija P

Feb 4, 2017

Thank you very much for this course! I got many useful information and had lots of fun to study it.

By César R P M

Sep 15, 2019

Excelent course to review past knowledge about statistics, easy to understand and practica with R.

By Noel N

Aug 6, 2019

Very interactive course which gives great insight to the topics covered with interesting examples.

By Piyush V

Jun 13, 2016

Fantastic Instructors. Imparting complex concepts using simple examples is commendable. Thumbs up!

By Vinicius C S

Sep 4, 2020

O curso é muito bom. Muito prático e apresenta os conceitos e aplicações de forma muito objetiva.

By saurabh s

Oct 16, 2018

This course was awesome.It helped me a lot in clearing my basics doubt with the help of lectures.

By Azat S

Jun 7, 2016

Easy to follow and information was presented beautifully. Was very enjoyable learning experience.

By Sachin D

Mar 31, 2020

Instructor delivered lectures with good live examples,they have indepth knowledge of the course.

By Abhay K

Feb 17, 2019

Excellent course structure! Very well presented with adequate visual teaching aids and examples!

By gauri j

May 23, 2017

intuitive lectures bolstered with plenty of examples.Tests are designed well too.Awesome course.

By Gabriel C

Mar 28, 2020

Very fun and friendly course, I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn Basic Statistics.

By Jovana R

Jul 23, 2020

the lectures are so funny and interesting. very easy to follow and to leant with the stories.

By Anishchenko M

Jun 15, 2020

Thank you for the course! Very clear and easy to follow even though the subject is not simple.

By HwanSeungKim

Jan 27, 2017

It's awesome! I've never had such a more cool lecture. Thanks, Profs. I'll take other classes!

By Steve W

May 26, 2016

Very clearly presented and easy to understand. The course explains what the calculations mean.

By Tiago C

Jan 12, 2016

Great course, innovative design, great content and Organization. Great teachers and didactic.

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