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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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Mar 5, 2017

Thanks for making things simpler.

By Partha S

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Feb 8, 2016

its carried out in excellent way.

By Peng Z

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Jan 21, 2022

Very concise and straightforward

By Tung T L

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Jul 1, 2021

Good class with good instructor.

By Kosta K

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Nov 28, 2020

Very vivid and very informative!

By Валера О

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May 24, 2020

Greatfull courses for beginners!

By Siddhant

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Sep 9, 2018

Very nice examples and questions

By naga

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Feb 27, 2017

Good course on basic statistics.

By Rajesh S B

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Oct 19, 2016

Contents are very well explained

By Xie Q

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Aug 1, 2016

It is absolutely a great course!

By Aleksandr A

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Feb 24, 2016

Great course, highly recommended

By Ekaterina P

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Jan 8, 2016

The best statistics course ever!

By Sruthi K

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Oct 19, 2022

very engaging learning session

By Wang X

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Nov 2, 2020

I love this coursera very much.

By Teja M C

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Jul 24, 2020

VERY HELPFUL FOR HIGHER STUDIES

By Deleted A

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Apr 11, 2020

This is very very useful course

By 叶雨欣

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Feb 4, 2020

老师的讲课方式简洁明了，令我很好的理解一些抽象的概念。十分感谢

By Ratnam D

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May 28, 2017

Best Course to Start with Stats

By Subhash K

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Mar 21, 2025

great way of explaining basics

By Gerardo M G

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Jul 14, 2023

I've really liked this course.

By Mateusz Z

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Jan 5, 2021

Thank you. I have learnt a lot

By Ananth P

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Aug 27, 2020

thank u for a wonderful course

By V S G

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Jun 6, 2020

amazing course!!! learnt a lot

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May 21, 2020

Each topics are well explained

By majd s

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Aug 31, 2017

Very funny and helpful course.