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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!

DA

Jan 28, 2021

great course with good videos and examples. Very good course for learning the basic statistics. Unfortunately the week 3 is the most misunderstanding module, nevertheless very good and understanding

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By Maristela H

Jan 22, 2020

This course has a fantastic explanation of Statics concepts. The examples are perfect.

By Ramesh M

Mar 31, 2016

These concpets are explained in a clear and simple methods. Thats helpful to me.

Thanks

By Javier K

Aug 30, 2016

Un curso muy bueno para hacer un repaso claro y conciso a los ejes de la estadística.

By Mohammad A

Jul 23, 2019

Overall course is awesome but the lectures of Matthijs Rooduijn, Dr. is just great.

By Salim T

Jan 15, 2017

Outstanding courses, may be the best one that I ever seen on Coursera.org!

Thank you!

By huynh t

Sep 29, 2016

What an amazing course!!! This is a very important step for me to enter data science

By Madhvendra S

Jul 12, 2020

This course is excellent . Everything is explained with lot of interesting example.

By Nicholas D

Nov 30, 2017

Very good parallel training switching between statistical theory and practice in R.

By Giang N

Oct 14, 2017

Enthusiastic teachers and very well designed and prepared lecture. Thank you a lot!

By CELIO T

Jan 26, 2022

data camp tool is so easy to use and helps a lot learning statistics by practicing

By Saleem R

Apr 3, 2019

Excellent course for beginners from any subject of study that want to do research.

By Prem M

Nov 1, 2018

It's a really great course for learning the fundamentals of statistics in detail.

By cameron a

Jan 7, 2018

Really useful refresher course for statistics and good tutorials for the R package

By subhransu s

May 19, 2017

Nice Experience an i just loved the Moocs on both basic and inferential statistics

By Vlada S

Mar 12, 2021

Great explanation, very engaging even for a person who initially disliked math ;)

By Elif

Dec 23, 2020

I almost hated statistics but now ı am fall in love with it, thank you very much.

By raunak r

Dec 25, 2016

For people who want to enter the world of statistics...this is the course.PERIOD!

By Ning W

Jun 23, 2016

Teachers have very clear logic to teach and make things very easy to understand.

By Aram S

Jun 5, 2016

I am really enjoying all the courses on Statistics. Thank you to the whole team.

By Eva L

Jul 21, 2017

through all the video, r-lab, and tests, I learnt a lot about basic statistics.

By Julie H

Jun 30, 2024

Very clear and at a good speed to digest the content during the video lectures

By Mario G C

Nov 29, 2019

Es un curso interesante, ágil y útil! La estadística bien explicada (por fin)!

By Baharak M

Jan 17, 2017

It was a very useful courser. I really enjoyed it and learnt a lot. Thank you.

By Sridharan V

Dec 10, 2016

Excellent course.The final exam was awesome.Very demanding and exciting course

By Adedoyin G O

Jul 20, 2020

It is very interesting, the videos are very educative and easy to understand.