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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 corr...
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Top reviews

AV

Jun 27, 2022

Instructors have provided concise explanations of the concepts. There are many examples considered that make statistics easier to understand! Also, the illustrations are fancy. I enjoyed every video!

SR

Dec 30, 2020

It was a big opportunity to learn in depth concept of Basic Statistics from Coursera course.All the lectures are very easy to understand and it allowed to me learn fast and quick.Thank you Coursera.

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By Kleuber R A

May 20, 2021

The fact of aborting the subjects in a very fast and superficial way leaves something to be desired and ends up generating a lot of confusion both in the course and in the programming part. I would need more examples and activities so that knowledge could be absorbed more easily and intuitively. There are some calculation errors in the videos and the lack of some references associated with tables Z and T that generate a lot of doubts and confusion. Anyway, I expected the course to be more organized.

By Venkatraman C

Mar 15, 2025

I joined a course to refresh my statistics. I was thrown head first into R Labs without support. I loved the videos and handouts, but did not want to spend hours on R without any help. So I withdrew from the course and started one offered by Stanford University.

By Alyxx S B

Jun 27, 2020

The information was amusing sometimes, but the first 2 chapters are sexist. That aside - the "R Lab" is not relevant to the class. Also, the order is backwards - all the interesting theory parts are the last 3 chapters!

By Fred S

Jun 18, 2025

This course was awe full To get my certificate, I needed 35 minutes Not worth my time and money

By Iván A

May 20, 2020

It should be named 'Basic', or say that it doesn't require previous knowledge because it does.

By Deleted A

Jan 4, 2023

That was the most terrible methodology ever seen in my life. I would stop it.

By Deleted A

Mar 2, 2021

Very long and I was feeling unmotivated to complete the course

By ThinhNP10

Apr 21, 2024

This course is really annoying since it asks me to launch R

By Anshika C

Sep 26, 2020

i want to unenroll from the course, I am not able to do it.

By Teriwein S

Dec 23, 2022

terminologies overload on the first week of lecture

By Хожаназар Б С

Apr 28, 2025

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