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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

JN

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.

CD

Mar 5, 2016

This course is really awesome. Designed well. Looks like a lot of efforts have been taken by the team to build this course. Kudos to everyone. Keep up the good work and thank you very much.

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By Arshad H

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Sep 15, 2020

Amazing Learning on Coursera.

By TIMOTHY M

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May 14, 2019

Very good course. Well done.

By norbert b

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Nov 5, 2018

wonderful course- well taught

By Chhanda M

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Jun 14, 2020

Awesome course!Learned a lot

By Ashfaqur R

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Feb 19, 2019

Great course for researchers

By Hang T

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Apr 6, 2017

Thank you! It is so amazing!

By Shi S

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Mar 16, 2017

Great course for beginners:S

By Fan M

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Feb 23, 2017

Great course, useful and fun

By Rejane R d C P

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Nov 4, 2020

Excellent course. Thanks!!!

By Deleted A

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Apr 17, 2018

The dutch know how to teach

By Vicente A A A

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Oct 25, 2016

Simple, Concise and Awesome

By bellahuang

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Mar 1, 2016

I like these two lecturers!

By Santosh H

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May 7, 2021

Excellent course materials

By MANJULABHARATHI A

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May 28, 2020

It's really amazing course

By Md S M

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Sep 5, 2019

Great course on Statistics

By Benedict V

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Aug 26, 2019

This course is a good one.

By Asim I A

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Apr 14, 2020

good course thank trainer

By Chengyi L

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Apr 13, 2020

Excellent beginner class!

By Andres G

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Dec 10, 2017

The best statistic course

By Izzati A

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Oct 12, 2016

This course is awesome :)

By Dr. C J

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Mar 15, 2021

It was awesome learning.

By Onedio S S J

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Mar 14, 2021

Excellent!!! Congrats!!!

By Wilna C

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Aug 9, 2020

Helpful and entertaining

By SUKANYA K M

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Oct 25, 2019

Great value and learning

By Mostafa M

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May 6, 2018

excellent presentations.