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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 Nazmi A

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Oct 16, 2019

Very good examples to understand the content.

By Adriana M C M

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May 2, 2019

Muy buenas explicaciones y pruebas objetivas.

By Sarah H H

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Feb 22, 2019

Clear and concise. Really enjoyed this class!

By 姚刚

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Jan 8, 2018

Very useful!!! Teachers explained **clearly**

By Jesús C

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Mar 21, 2017

Very good course to get started in statistics

By Ahmad W S

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Apr 21, 2021

It is one of the best Course for beginners.

By Dr.ML. M

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Jul 19, 2020

Reference books and forums shall be included

By Cristina R

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Aug 10, 2017

muy buen curso, espero lo re-activen pronto

By Soomi L

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Jan 2, 2017

Very good to refresh your statistics skills.

By Abhishek P

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Aug 28, 2016

Best course for the beginners in Statistics.

By gaurav

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Apr 5, 2016

Most Precise Course with lots of excersices

By Buddhika D

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Jul 3, 2020

i have got lot of knowlage about statistics

By SPADE O

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Jun 6, 2020

thank you so much for your fantastic course

By 李亚星

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Aug 8, 2020

clear and detailed explanation! wonderful!

By Junaid H

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Sep 21, 2019

Great Insight! Would recommend to anybody.

By Deleted A

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Aug 22, 2018

Very interesting course for the beginners.

By Ahmed A

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Mar 12, 2017

Thank you very much for this great course!

By Zhengpeng M

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May 10, 2022

this course was great! it helps me a lot.

By Sanduni H

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Dec 8, 2020

I learnt alot from this course!

Thank you!

By Muhammad Z A

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Nov 8, 2020

Best Course on Statistics and Probability

By Yugraj S K

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May 12, 2020

awesome course to learn statistics basics

By Jose A V

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Apr 20, 2019

The course was excellent. congratulations

By Hossein S

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Mar 31, 2016

I can say, the best course I took online.

By Daniela L y S

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Feb 28, 2016

Great course! very easy & funny examples

By Yana B

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Feb 8, 2016

great teaching on the subject! Thank you!