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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. You will not only learn about all these statistical concepts, you will also be trained to calculate and generate these statistics yourself using freely available statistical software....

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!

PG

Apr 20, 2016

This is a nice course...thanks for providing such a great content from University of Amserdam.

Please allow us to complete the course as I have to wait till the session starts for week 2 lessions.

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By Deleted A

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Jul 19, 2016

Excellent course, clear informative lectures using real life examples that make statistics easier to understand.

By Asif H

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Aug 19, 2019

Excellent for building an understanding for stats. Greatly helped in while doing my Data Science Specialization

By Sai S H G

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Apr 28, 2018

Really loved the video lectures! The lecturers were the best part and the assignments were challenging and fun!

By Aprilia G

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Mar 20, 2021

Interesting case studies, there are some technical errors and misspellings, but in general easy to comprehend.

By Francisco L J

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Mar 24, 2020

Very good and goes to the point in every video. I liked the explanations and examples. Pretty good professors.

By Debbie L

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Jul 26, 2019

Great online course! The videos are very well made and easy to understand. Thank you for creating this course!

By Hardik S

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Jun 1, 2017

Extremely useful for thorough fundamental understanding. Thank you so much for this well thought-about course!

By Turner J W

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Jul 19, 2021

Good overall intro course! I do wish it went a bit further in-depth, but I guess that's for the next course.

By Thaung H

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Jun 9, 2020

Excellent course. I am going to take all the courses from University of Amsterdem. Thanks to all my teachers.

By Olokojo G E

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Feb 13, 2019

I find it mind blowing and i love the tutors style of demystifying statistics using daily life examples/cases

By Saurav V

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Feb 8, 2016

Absolutely great start for statistics with R. Not too heavy in time, not too light. Amazingly curated course.

By ahmed s

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Aug 3, 2022

Really great course to understand the whole concepts of statistics and get your hands dirty with some R code

By Maya S

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Aug 12, 2016

I sucked at math in high school, but this course is making me love math again. Excellent job, Amsterdam Uni.

By Sureshkumar L

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Sep 8, 2019

nice course.. course structured easy to understand and hint help where you dont know how to proceed futher.

By Goutham K

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Jun 10, 2019

Extremely helpful course. Laid my foundations for a hopefully bright future in Analytics and Data Science.

By Vaishaali M ( I

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Aug 31, 2017

I am loving this course, it has many real life examples to understand the concepts. Thanks for this course

By Theodor G

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Jan 29, 2016

Great explanations. Clear examples. I love the stories and the drawings. Good thought pedagogical concept.

By kp

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Jan 16, 2016

Best course on statistics. Concepts explained in very simple language and through beautiful visualizations

By Hemant K P

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Jan 6, 2020

Nice course. Professors explained concepts well. Basics were covered in detail with interesting examples.

By Eddie T

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Jan 29, 2021

Thank you, Coursera, Very Challenging and exciting course!I learned basic statistics with R programming.

By Markus W

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May 7, 2016

Nice and challenging (despite the fact that most of the material was taught at school many years ago...)

By Manoj K

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Feb 15, 2016

This is best course on statistics.. at least for me who is comparatively new to it. I recommend it 100%.

By Swati

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Aug 17, 2021

It took time to study statistics but this course helped me alot to understand from the basic. Thank You

By VALDEZ, M J

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Mar 9, 2021

I understand descriptive statistics at a basic level and I learn a lot about probability and statistic

By yanghb

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Nov 8, 2017

Very Good lessons to learn Statistics, but it's better if we could pick Python/MataLab as alternatives.