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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

AR

Aug 27, 2017

Very Good course. I was pretty much satisfied. R-lab can be improved and better explanations to help us on the test could have been given (after not passing the first time, for example).

YM

Apr 9, 2019

It is not possible to revise the course by reading transcripts only. One has to go through all the videos. Otherwise, it is a very good course and explained in a very simple and easy manner.

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By Huong L

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Jun 11, 2017

Course very well structured and easy for beginners to follow

By Xiwen O

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May 26, 2017

It's a very interesting and useful way to learn this course.

By Geetha S

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May 23, 2016

The concepts are explained very clearly. Thanks to the team.

By JONDEL S I

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Apr 3, 2020

i REALLY THE VIDEO CONTENT, BECAUSE ITS VERY COMPREHENSIVE.

By ANKIT S

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Mar 14, 2016

Hey its really fun to learn statistics this way. Great Job!

By Gautam R

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Apr 13, 2018

Really a great course ! The way of teaching is majestic :)

By Abdulelah A

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Jan 14, 2016

Perfect material, Perfect instructors, and perfect course!

By Masoud I

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Apr 19, 2021

It was great! Just weeks 3 & 4 could be presented better.

By Huang T

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Nov 29, 2020

A nice course, I really like it. Thanks for the teachers!

By Mingyang W

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Jul 9, 2019

thanks very much and i think that is a fantastic course .

By Jeni S

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Mar 12, 2016

Some of the concepts are very clearly explained. Loved it

By Lizette D F D

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Sep 8, 2020

Very interesting course! Professors explain very well :)

By Anh T T

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Jun 30, 2020

Very good course to cover the basic ideas of statistics.

By Michelle H

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Apr 17, 2017

These guys use the best examples to make statistics fun!

By Shibin T

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Jan 15, 2017

Great course! very intuitive. Great learning experience.

By Gabriel M

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Apr 10, 2017

I had a really great time with the material! Thank you!

By Giovanny A N

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May 24, 2016

Excelente material, buena metodología, fácil de seguir.

By Maryna A

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Jul 17, 2020

This course was interesting! But, it was quite long :)

By Camilla F

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Sep 28, 2017

Great course, easy to understand and very informative.

By INDRACANTI M

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Mar 31, 2016

Excellent, it is going to clear all my basics. Regards

By Wendy

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Feb 9, 2022

las explicaciones y los ejemplos son claros y simples

By bench f

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Oct 26, 2020

It was a challenging course but I have learned a lot.

By 赵思奇

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Mar 2, 2018

The lectures are easy to understand, fun and useful.

By Bruno

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Jun 8, 2016

Great course! Finally I could learn statistics and R