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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

SH

Aug 18, 2019

Videos were good, quizzes were good at assessing knowledge. Didn't like the tool for answering question in R. Would much rather they just had you install R and RStudio and complete questions there.

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!!

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By Elita R

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Dec 9, 2018

Excellent explanations by both professors and very interesting illustrations and examples! Thank you to the team.

By Muhammad A R

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Jul 27, 2018

loved it. Wanted to go through basic statistics for research purposes, and this course has more than done the job

By Howard C

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Jun 30, 2019

Recommend this course for beginners, the instructors make statistics fun and easy to grasp the concept! Like it!

By Dan M

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Jan 16, 2019

Excellent explanation. A few minor mistakes in the tables but nothing that tips the scale. Great course overall.

By Martin J

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Jul 19, 2017

This course is an excellent introduction (or for me a repetition) of the basics of statistics. Congrats to that.

By Utku K

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Jan 17, 2017

Very good prepared, congratulations. The course helped me understand the basic notions very easily and with fun.

By Deleted A

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Jul 19, 2016

Excellent course, clear informative lectures using real life examples that make statistics easier to understand.

By Asif H

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Aug 19, 2019

Excellent for building an understanding for stats. Greatly helped in while doing my Data Science Specialization

By Sai S H G

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Apr 28, 2018

Really loved the video lectures! The lecturers were the best part and the assignments were challenging and fun!

By Aprilia G

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Mar 20, 2021

Interesting case studies, there are some technical errors and misspellings, but in general easy to comprehend.

By Francisco L J

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Mar 24, 2020

Very good and goes to the point in every video. I liked the explanations and examples. Pretty good professors.

By Debbie L

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Jul 26, 2019

Great online course! The videos are very well made and easy to understand. Thank you for creating this course!

By Hardik S

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Jun 1, 2017

Extremely useful for thorough fundamental understanding. Thank you so much for this well thought-about course!

By Turner J W

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Jul 19, 2021

Good overall intro course! I do wish it went a bit further in-depth, but I guess that's for the next course.

By Thaung H

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Jun 9, 2020

Excellent course. I am going to take all the courses from University of Amsterdem. Thanks to all my teachers.

By Olokojo G E

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Feb 13, 2019

I find it mind blowing and i love the tutors style of demystifying statistics using daily life examples/cases

By Saurav V

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Feb 7, 2016

Absolutely great start for statistics with R. Not too heavy in time, not too light. Amazingly curated course.

By ahmed s

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Aug 3, 2022

Really great course to understand the whole concepts of statistics and get your hands dirty with some R code

By Maya S

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Aug 11, 2016

I sucked at math in high school, but this course is making me love math again. Excellent job, Amsterdam Uni.

By Sureshkumar L

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Sep 8, 2019

nice course.. course structured easy to understand and hint help where you dont know how to proceed futher.

By Goutham K

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Jun 10, 2019

Extremely helpful course. Laid my foundations for a hopefully bright future in Analytics and Data Science.

By Vaishaali M ( I

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Aug 30, 2017

I am loving this course, it has many real life examples to understand the concepts. Thanks for this course

By Theodor G

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Jan 29, 2016

Great explanations. Clear examples. I love the stories and the drawings. Good thought pedagogical concept.

By Pankaj K

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Jan 16, 2016

Best course on statistics. Concepts explained in very simple language and through beautiful visualizations