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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

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!

DA

Jan 28, 2021

great course with good videos and examples. Very good course for learning the basic statistics. Unfortunately the week 3 is the most misunderstanding module, nevertheless very good and understanding

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By Soomi L

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Jan 2, 2017

Very good to refresh your statistics skills.

By Abhishek P

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Aug 28, 2016

Best course for the beginners in Statistics.

By gaurav

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Apr 5, 2016

Most Precise Course with lots of excersices

By Buddhika D

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Jul 3, 2020

i have got lot of knowlage about statistics

By SPADE O

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Jun 6, 2020

thank you so much for your fantastic course

By 李亚星

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Aug 8, 2020

clear and detailed explanation! wonderful!

By Junaid H

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Sep 21, 2019

Great Insight! Would recommend to anybody.

By Deleted A

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Aug 22, 2018

Very interesting course for the beginners.

By Ahmed A

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Mar 12, 2017

Thank you very much for this great course!

By Zhengpeng M

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May 10, 2022

this course was great! it helps me a lot.

By Sanduni H

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Dec 8, 2020

I learnt alot from this course!

Thank you!

By Muhammad Z A

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Nov 8, 2020

Best Course on Statistics and Probability

By Yugraj S K

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May 13, 2020

awesome course to learn statistics basics

By Jose A V

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Apr 21, 2019

The course was excellent. congratulations

By Hossein S

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Mar 31, 2016

I can say, the best course I took online.

By Daniela L y S

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Feb 28, 2016

Great course! very easy & funny examples

By Yana B

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Feb 8, 2016

great teaching on the subject! Thank you!

By Hari S

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Mar 18, 2022

Wonderful course. Very nicely explained.

By Nipuni D

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Jan 16, 2022

It is difficult in an appropriate level.

By dharani j

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Feb 26, 2019

Wonderful course on basics of statistics

By Pawan K S

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Jun 14, 2018

a very excellent way to teach statistic.

By Christel P

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Jan 5, 2016

Clear video's & examples, easy to follow

By Haris K

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Jul 17, 2020

A best course to learn about Statistics

By Antal T

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Oct 11, 2018

Thank you for the great course material

By Amanda W

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Dec 5, 2017

A truly fantastic course in statistics.