Name: Basic Statistics
Brand: University of Amsterdam
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.6 (1137 reviews)

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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. Normally, you would not only learn about all these statistical concepts, but you would also be trained to calculate and generate these statistics yourself using freely available statistical software. Due to technical issues we are currently unable to do so. We will try to offer this again soon....

Top reviews

Jan 24, 2019

took the free option. It has been good so far, learning a ton. I find the videos move quickly and after watching them I had to re-read the material, overall i would recommend this course.

Sep 8, 2020

Thank You, @University_of_Amsterdam for this wonderful course. I have really benefited a lot from this course. Thank you, Dr. Matthijs Rooduijn for making this course so lively and interesting!!

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By Kaoustav D

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Nov 26, 2021

Good Course

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Sep 29, 2021

It´s Great.

By Lavanya S

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Sep 22, 2020

Informative

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Aug 20, 2020

very useful

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Jul 18, 2020

Good course

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Jul 17, 2020

Thats great

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May 24, 2020

It was good

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May 5, 2020

Good Course

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Jan 26, 2020

good course

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Sep 15, 2019

good course

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May 22, 2019

Great depth

By Rajakumar

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Apr 11, 2019

Very Useful

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Dec 18, 2018

nice course

By Rutanshu R D

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Mar 1, 2017

Excellent!!

By Aravind S

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Aug 12, 2016

Exceptional

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Apr 26, 2016

Nice course

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Jan 6, 2016

good course

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Jan 4, 2023

Awesome!!!

By Mrs. V B M K

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Mar 8, 2022

informaive

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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!