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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!!

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.

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By Vikram C

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Jul 31, 2018

Good course with excellent examples!

By Sanket K

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Jun 14, 2016

Excellent presentation of concepts!!

By Narek

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Apr 30, 2016

The best introduction to Statistics.

By AIKATERINI P

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Jan 10, 2021

Excellent course!!

I recommend it!!!

By Vera C

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Nov 2, 2020

Very cool course! I liked it a lot!

By Arshad M

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Aug 28, 2020

really help me in clearing my basic

By Prashant N

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Aug 27, 2020

thank you for the excellent course

By Anil K

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Jul 30, 2020

Great and difficult course. Great!!

By Elma W

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Jun 20, 2018

Clear explanations, great teachers.

By zoe

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Nov 23, 2017

humorous and a lot of fun and gains

By R v

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Feb 16, 2017

Fantastic course. Best in the world

By ram H

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Aug 31, 2021

it was a great course for learning

By Gaurav S

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Jul 5, 2021

Thankyou for creating this content

By Niraj K

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May 29, 2021

Thank you for this amazing course!

By Akash k y

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Jun 11, 2019

I like this it's quite interesting

By Jamila H

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Jun 1, 2021

Challenging, but I learned a LOT!

By Katia G

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May 5, 2021

Nice course. Very well structured

By SRI B P J

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Jul 22, 2020

Awesome course for mathematicians

By Md S

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Jul 14, 2020

I learned a lot from this course.

By PP

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Mar 5, 2017

Thanks for making things simpler.

By Partha S

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Feb 9, 2016

its carried out in excellent way.

By Peng Z

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Jan 21, 2022

Very concise and straightforward

By Tung T L

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Jul 1, 2021

Good class with good instructor.

By Kosta K

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Nov 28, 2020

Very vivid and very informative!