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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).

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 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!!!

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Mar 8, 2022

informaive

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Jul 12, 2020

simplified

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May 22, 2020

Thank you.

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Jan 1, 2020

Excellent!

By Amaia P d A M

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Oct 30, 2019

Fantastic.

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Jun 3, 2018

Thank you!

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Nov 6, 2017

Excellent!

By Pedro H

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Dec 29, 2016

excellent!

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Oct 11, 2016

well done!

By Michael G

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Jun 14, 2016

Thank you!

By Grisell G G

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Mar 16, 2016

excelente!

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Apr 3, 2025

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Dec 7, 2024

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Oct 27, 2024

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Oct 22, 2023

Very good

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Sep 24, 2023

excellent

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Feb 7, 2023

excelente

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Nov 18, 2021

very good

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Aug 11, 2021

very good

By Matthew P

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Apr 26, 2021

Very epic