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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 Intesar O

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Jun 23, 2020

Very good course!

By Qian H

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Aug 9, 2017

Very nice course!

By Dan W

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Oct 7, 2016

Excellent Basics!

By 宋旸

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Feb 7, 2016

Inspiring course.

By Ramiro L

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Jan 25, 2016

nicely done guys!

By Asha F O

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Jul 28, 2023

wonderful course

By Snehal P

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Oct 7, 2020

Wonderful Course

By Anton K

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Jun 22, 2020

Simple and clear

By Hany N

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Apr 10, 2019

Fantastic course

By Vinod V p

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Apr 10, 2019

Excellent course

By Miriam R

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Mar 25, 2019

Excelente course

By Xiaoyin C

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Jan 7, 2019

very good course

By Venkata s k B

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Nov 12, 2018

very good course

By Raghu

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Mar 8, 2018

Excellent Course

By Sriniwas K

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Dec 11, 2017

very nice course

By HIMANSHU K

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Nov 17, 2017

Simply explained

By ankur s

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May 14, 2017

EXCELLENT COURSE

By Zhang Q

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Jan 19, 2017

very good course

By Ahmed m w e

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Jun 2, 2016

very nice course

By Deepti Y

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Aug 27, 2025

very benefitive

By Andrew M

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Oct 5, 2022

Awesome Course

By HEMALATHA Y R

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Mar 4, 2021

Nice experience

By MUHAMMED A V

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May 3, 2020

fantastic topic

By José E B C

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Mar 23, 2019

Bien explicado!

By Deleted A

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Mar 27, 2018

so constructive