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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 Mario G C

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Nov 29, 2019

Es un curso interesante, ágil y útil! La estadística bien explicada (por fin)!

By Baharak M

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Jan 17, 2017

It was a very useful courser. I really enjoyed it and learnt a lot. Thank you.

By Sridharan V

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Dec 10, 2016

Excellent course.The final exam was awesome.Very demanding and exciting course

By Adedoyin G O

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Jul 20, 2020

It is very interesting, the videos are very educative and easy to understand.

By Bhanu M D

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May 20, 2020

The course is designed very significantly and best for the learning purpose.

By Abhishek A

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Aug 20, 2018

Loved the presentation. Completely engaging. Absolute delight for beginners.

By Benjamin H

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Jun 3, 2018

I was very impressed with this course. I learned a ton in a few short weeks.

By Andrei V

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Jan 12, 2017

Very nice and easy presentations describing things I forgot from university.

By Raya B

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Feb 21, 2016

I loved it very much. Easy to understand, visual and enjoyable explanations.

By Hadil S

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Dec 31, 2021

wow i love this course that takes you step by step to the basic of big data

By Witharana P D M d S

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Aug 28, 2020

The best statistics course I've ever followed!! Thank you soo much the team

By Zhanghan

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Oct 21, 2018

I learn a lot of probability knowledge and have a little command of R lab.

By Marta M

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Dec 22, 2016

Great course!

Well explained concepts, easy to grasp, thorough evaluation :)

By thi k a n

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May 27, 2024

Fantastic course! Thank you so much for offering such an excellent course!

By Pundalik R N

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Apr 30, 2021

i am much satisfied with this course. looking forward to learn still more

By Daniel M

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Mar 31, 2018

really helped deepen my knowledge and is a fun and informative online unit

By Fendi T

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Jun 10, 2016

Excellent jobs in explaining sophisticated theories with vivid examples ^^

By Jo S

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Jan 27, 2016

Great materials and teachers. This is one of the best courses I've found.

By CARLOS M S M

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Mar 29, 2021

A great course to learn the fundamentals of statistics in a friendly way

By Utkarsh P

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Jun 7, 2020

this course builds my basic concepts of statistics and I also learned R.

By ashwani b

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Aug 19, 2018

very interactive and content is very much based on real world. Loved it.

By Imtithal A S

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Apr 16, 2017

Is the most beautiful course ever I learned stats by taking this course.

By Josep S

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Mar 6, 2016

High quality course for absolute beginners in stats. I highly recommend.

By Guilherme

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Jun 22, 2022

Course very well elaborated. Teachers very communicative and assertive.

By rafael l n

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Jun 7, 2021

excellent course, the practice exercises using r-statistic are the best