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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 Hari S

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Mar 18, 2022

Wonderful course. Very nicely explained.

By Nipuni D

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Jan 16, 2022

It is difficult in an appropriate level.

By dharani j

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Feb 26, 2019

Wonderful course on basics of statistics

By Pawan K S

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Jun 14, 2018

a very excellent way to teach statistic.

By Christel P

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Jan 5, 2016

Clear video's & examples, easy to follow

By Haris K

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Jul 17, 2020

A best course to learn about Statistics

By Antal T

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Oct 10, 2018

Thank you for the great course material

By Amanda W

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Dec 5, 2017

A truly fantastic course in statistics.

By Syed M

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Nov 12, 2017

Very Good Course with nice explanations

By Hongjian H

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Aug 20, 2017

Very useful for beginner of statistics!

By Amod V

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Jul 7, 2017

Excellent course for basic statistics !

By Roman Y

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Jun 15, 2017

Great course! Now I do like statistics!

By Yuning S

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Mar 1, 2017

very useful for BA psychology students!

By Aida M

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Sep 9, 2016

Thank you very much! I learned so much!

By Rambabu “ M

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May 27, 2016

Amazing teaching for wonderful subject.

By SANDIPAN G

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Feb 3, 2021

very good course increase my knowledge

By Amanda M

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Mar 16, 2018

Super easy details to learn statistics

By LECONTE M

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Apr 17, 2017

Very good course and very interesting.

By Zhao R

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Jun 29, 2016

The best course I've ever enrolled in.

By Joshi E

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Nov 25, 2020

Recommend it for a practical learning

By MANAS S

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Nov 1, 2018

IT WAS GREAT FUN LEARNING THIS COURSE

By Antonio D T

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Dec 17, 2017

Excellent introduction to statistics!

By Rakesh R

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Jul 7, 2017

Wonderful course for learning basics.

By Milad

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Feb 7, 2017

it was truly helpful! thank you guys!

By Xiaoxiao Z

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Sep 17, 2016

Really a good course. Worth learning.