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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

JB

Sep 9, 2020

Thank You, @University_of_Amsterdam for this wonderful course. I have really benefited a lot from this course. Thank you, Dr. Matthijs Rooduijn for making this course so lively and interesting!!

AR

Aug 28, 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).

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By Andres G

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Dec 11, 2017

The best statistic course

By Izzati A

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Oct 12, 2016

This course is awesome :)

By Dr. C J

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Mar 16, 2021

It was awesome learning.

By Onedio S S J

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Mar 15, 2021

Excellent!!! Congrats!!!

By Wilna C

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Aug 9, 2020

Helpful and entertaining

By SUKANYA K M

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Oct 25, 2019

Great value and learning

By Mostafa M

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May 7, 2018

excellent presentations.

By Kaushal K S

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Sep 12, 2016

I recommend this course.

By Prashant b

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Apr 24, 2016

This course was awesome.

By Jasmine S V J P

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Dec 30, 2020

It was a awesome course

By Катя Є

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Apr 1, 2019

Thanks for cool course.

By Abdulrahman

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Jun 4, 2018

Clear and to the point.

By Arthur G d S

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Aug 28, 2017

Best statistics course!

By Zhe X

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Jan 22, 2016

Very clear and awesome!

By Daragh T

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Jan 19, 2016

Very well put together.

By Sesha S

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May 16, 2021

Very Good . Keep it up

By Safdar R

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Jul 23, 2020

one of the best course

By 赵博威

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Mar 21, 2020

very funny, I LOVE IT!

By 龚欢

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Apr 14, 2019

Nice and clear courses

By Matias A

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Jul 9, 2017

Awesome Well done guys

By Muhammad A

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Jun 23, 2017

great course

Thank you

By Sudharsanan M R

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Sep 3, 2016

Its Awesome experience

By MUHAMAD S C O

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Feb 4, 2026

Good to get knowledge

By ANGHAN D B

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Sep 3, 2022

thank you good course

By RAKESH K B

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Jun 30, 2020

Very difficult course