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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

JB

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!!

AR

Aug 27, 2017

Very Good course. I was pretty much satisfied. R-lab can be improved and better explanations to help us on the test could have been given (after not passing the first time, for example).

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By Manoj K

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Feb 15, 2016

This is best course on statistics.. at least for me who is comparatively new to it. I recommend it 100%.

By Swati

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Aug 17, 2021

It took time to study statistics but this course helped me alot to understand from the basic. Thank You

By VALDEZ, M J

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Mar 9, 2021

I understand descriptive statistics at a basic level and I learn a lot about probability and statistic

By yanghb

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Nov 8, 2017

Very Good lessons to learn Statistics, but it's better if we could pick Python/MataLab as alternatives.

By Tay J

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Aug 7, 2017

Thank you! I think it was a good course. I have no particular problems or complaints about the course.

By DINESHKUMAR U

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Jun 28, 2020

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

By Ashish T

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Feb 2, 2020

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

By Siddharth

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Mar 6, 2016

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

By Diego A

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Feb 25, 2016

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

By Shenglan Z

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Oct 16, 2020

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

By Kornelis P

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Mar 29, 2019

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

By Paula B

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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

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Feb 2, 2017

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

By Julija P

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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

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Sep 15, 2019

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

By Noel N

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Aug 6, 2019

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

By Piyush V

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Jun 13, 2016

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

By Vinicius C S

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Sep 4, 2020

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

By saurabh s

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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

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Jun 7, 2016

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

By Sachin D

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Mar 31, 2020

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

By Abhay K

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Feb 17, 2019

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

By gauri j

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May 23, 2017

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

By Gabriel C

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Mar 28, 2020

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