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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 ashwani b

Aug 19, 2018

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

By Imtithal A S

Apr 16, 2017

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

By Josep S

Mar 6, 2016

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

By Guilherme

Jun 22, 2022

Course very well elaborated. Teachers very communicative and assertive.

By rafael l n

Jun 7, 2021

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

By Ibragimov A

Apr 23, 2021

It's quite easy and understandable for almost everyone. I recommend it!

By Mahesh P

Oct 14, 2020

Very helpful course for beginners. Concepts are explained very clearly.

By 罗金培

Jun 12, 2020

Great Course! Help me know about some basic knowledge about Statistics!

By sangramsinh s

Apr 10, 2019

amazing tutorials and i learn alots of new thing in field of statistics

By Jodie

Jan 2, 2018

Professor is really humorous! Courses are instructive and interesting!

By marianne b

Dec 30, 2017

Great course, clear explanations with funny examples, I learned a lot!

By Ernazarov T

Dec 2, 2016

Great course but a lack of formulas in pdf files is very uncomfortable

By David R

Oct 28, 2016

Good design and really easy to learn, good teachers even for beginners

By Ingo V

May 6, 2016

Very well done: a lot of effort put into this course, and it pays off.

By Venugopal B

Mar 15, 2016

Basic intro to Stats & R. Very good if you are starting either / both.

By Artem R

Jan 7, 2016

Have recently passed the first week and I should say that was awesome!

By Edilson S

Jul 20, 2017

Very Nice course!!! A simple and powerful introduction to Statistics!

By Fan Y

Jan 12, 2017

very clear and well-organized, one of my best experiences on coursera

By Sushil K

Mar 5, 2018

exceptional efforts! thank you for this surreal learning experience!

By Christopher A

Nov 21, 2016

Very engaging videos, good pace, easy to understand. Great job guys!

By Pramod N

Feb 6, 2016

Great presentation, easy to understand with good examples. Way to go

By Mohd F I

Oct 1, 2025

The course is great. I need more example to make us understand more

By Maria B O C

Nov 26, 2020

Love this course....explained everything so clear! thank yo so much

By Nikhil A

Jan 18, 2016

Loved presentation style. Very simple way to teach complex concept.

By Alvin M S

Jun 23, 2020

Excellent way to learn Basic Statistics with the help of R Studio.