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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

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).

YM

Apr 9, 2019

It is not possible to revise the course by reading transcripts only. One has to go through all the videos. Otherwise, it is a very good course and explained in a very simple and easy manner.

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By Barbara W

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Jul 25, 2017

great refresher

By 田野

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Mar 15, 2016

Useful and help

By Bijay K

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Mar 12, 2022

Basics learned

By RUIJIE Y

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Nov 28, 2021

Good class!!!

By Peter D

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Mar 28, 2021

Great Course!

By 黄哲恒

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Feb 2, 2021

it is so good

By Franziska W

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May 9, 2020

Simply great!

By Franco S

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Apr 23, 2020

Great course!

By Abdirahman O

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Jan 18, 2018

Great Course.

By Jai J

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May 22, 2017

Great Course.

By Srini K

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May 16, 2016

very good 5.0

By Katelyn D

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Nov 13, 2025

great course

By ASHUTOSH K S

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Jan 3, 2022

best subject

By TRANG P Q

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Feb 14, 2021

Great course

By Somsubhra D

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Oct 25, 2020

Good course.

By Murat B

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Nov 12, 2016

fun to learn

By Jack C

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Apr 16, 2016

easy, useful

By Cathy C d D C

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Mar 6, 2016

great course

By FRANCIS D

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Dec 14, 2023

basics good

By Хоменко А В

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Nov 28, 2022

Було цікаво

By PRANSHU K

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Apr 24, 2022

nice cource

By Kaoustav D

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Nov 26, 2021

Good Course

By Thomaz E P L G d A

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Sep 29, 2021

It´s Great.

By Lavanya S

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Sep 22, 2020

Informative

By Veramreddy R

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Aug 20, 2020

very useful