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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 Chong Q L

Feb 29, 2020

Enable incremental assimilation of knowledge

By Chen C

Jan 6, 2020

Hopefully we could remove the poop example.

By Ashwin R

Jul 18, 2020

Interesting and alot of real life examples

By Hector V

Oct 7, 2017

Excellent and friendly visual explanations

By Eli T

Jul 9, 2017

Nice combination of statistics intro and R

By Mengjia C

Apr 8, 2018

Professor Matthijs Rooduijn is very good!

By Jurgita Z

Sep 25, 2020

too many things, that are unnecessary

By Patrick C

Mar 14, 2020

great course but r labs was pointless

By Tan C H

Aug 5, 2019

Very useful basic statistical skills.

By Joe D

Oct 21, 2023

The only part I didnt like is R Lab

By PRATEEK M

Oct 19, 2020

Good to brush up statistics skills

By Manish P

Jan 27, 2018

Need more description and depth.

By JAMES A

Oct 30, 2024

Learned a lot From this course!

By pooja p

Jul 11, 2022

Very usefull at beginner level.

By Shady N

Aug 3, 2016

Very useful Statistics Course.

By Justin H

Jun 21, 2016

Nice. For noobs.

I enjoyed it!

By Oladapo A

Sep 3, 2017

Great course. I learnt a lot

By Akshata S K

Jul 16, 2020

its nice experience......!

By Official a R v

Sep 7, 2024

this is very help ful

By DHRUVIT N

Sep 5, 2022

VERY BAD APPLICATION

By Chalmer L

Apr 7, 2016

I enjoyed the class.

By Daniel N

Jan 30, 2020

good, can be harder

By Mohamed S S

Sep 27, 2022

Awesome course

By Deleted A

Aug 3, 2020

Well composed !

By JB G

Jun 25, 2016

Great course :)