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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!!

SR

Dec 30, 2020

It was a big opportunity to learn in depth concept of Basic Statistics from Coursera course.All the lectures are very easy to understand and it allowed to me learn fast and quick.Thank you Coursera.

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Jun 14, 2016

Great Presentation !

By Megha J

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Jun 7, 2020

very amazing course

By Bharath R

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May 31, 2020

superb app to learn

By Fereshteh Z

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Apr 13, 2020

Very useful course.

By 刘又一

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Mar 17, 2016

Makes you thinking.

By Yangxi Z

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Mar 9, 2016

easy to understand.

By JORIE C R

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Apr 17, 2021

Thank you so much!

By Emad K

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Jan 23, 2018

Easy to understand

By christian c m b

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Aug 14, 2017

Incredible course!

By Snehanjan

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May 6, 2017

Top class course !

By Dina D

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Jan 3, 2017

FUN, surprisingly!

By Onur Ö

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Jan 2, 2017

Easy and inspiring

By Antonio B

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Sep 10, 2016

great way to teach

By Nikola v

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Sep 21, 2025

I really liked it

By Noemi M B

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Nov 1, 2022

Ótimo, recomendo.

By Utsav

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Aug 31, 2022

NICE EXPLANATIONS

By Dr.Amitkumar R K

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Jul 12, 2022

Excellent course.

By Vikram A

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Jan 3, 2021

Very nice course!

By Min M

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Aug 26, 2020

Excellent Course!

By Intesar O

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Jun 23, 2020

Very good course!

By Qian H

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Aug 9, 2017

Very nice course!

By Dan W

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Oct 7, 2016

Excellent Basics!

By 宋旸

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Feb 7, 2016

Inspiring course.

By Ramiro L

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Jan 25, 2016

nicely done guys!

By Asha F O

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Jul 28, 2023

wonderful course