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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 Pablo V

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Sep 24, 2017

Very good course for newbies in Statitics .. as me.

By Mae P

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Jul 21, 2016

Excellent instructors; lessons are well structured.

By Seva B

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Sep 1, 2022

Really useful course, if you beginer in statistics

By Guangjun W

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Mar 12, 2021

Good teachers, excellent content, amazing graphics

By Suntosh S (

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Aug 16, 2020

Very good course to learn the basics in Statistics

By Щербаков Д

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Jan 3, 2020

This was a great course introduction to statistics

By Mohammad M B

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Sep 26, 2019

Interesting and fun way of teaching. Great course.

By Sandro C Z

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Jul 30, 2018

Very good for learn and for remember, and easy way

By Stefan S

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Jan 31, 2023

very well course and very well lecturers/teachers

By Haibin W

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Jan 1, 2023

it‘s bit hard to follow but worthywhile to listen

By Sev Z

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Apr 25, 2021

Great examples with humor and fantastic teachers!

By Mugdha P

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Jun 25, 2019

Concepts are explained in a very effective manner

By Maitreyee T

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Jul 22, 2016

The supervisor and the content is extremely good.

By Yorrick J

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Mar 2, 2016

Best course I ever took so far! (out of 6 others)

By Kevin L G

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Feb 25, 2016

Very well-taught and complete statistics course !

By graciely

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Jan 14, 2016

Great class! Thank you for all clear explanation.

By omar r

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Nov 11, 2024

that was a very rich course and I learned a lot.

By Sai K K K

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Jul 31, 2019

Good Concepts taught in a easy and logical way..

By Nada A

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Sep 5, 2020

very challenging but ultimately i learned a lot

By K A K

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May 13, 2020

GREAT TEACHING AND THE COURSE IS REALLY HELPFUL

By ONUR Z

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Sep 30, 2016

It's a great introductory course to statistics.

By 黄俊宁

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Feb 6, 2016

优秀的课程，顺带可以学一下R语言，例子比较生动形象，可以作为统计科普及入门的一门不错的课程使用

By Dr. S J A A A

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Mar 2, 2020

very nicely explained , well structure course

By zuoqun m

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Aug 9, 2019

lively examples used in the course of teaching

By stefan k

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Nov 9, 2016

Fantastic !! Very condensed and well explained