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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. You will not only learn about all these statistical concepts, you will also be trained to calculate and generate these statistics yourself using freely available statistical software....

Top reviews

AV

Jun 28, 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 31, 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 Sev Z

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Apr 25, 2021

Great examples with humor and fantastic teachers!

By Mugdha P

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Jun 25, 2019

Concepts are explained in a very effective manner

By Maitreyee T

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Jul 22, 2016

The supervisor and the content is extremely good.

By Yorrick J

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Mar 2, 2016

Best course I ever took so far! (out of 6 others)

By Kevin L G

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Feb 25, 2016

Very well-taught and complete statistics course !

By graciely

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Jan 14, 2016

Great class! Thank you for all clear explanation.

By omar r

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Nov 12, 2024

that was a very rich course and I learned a lot.

By Sai K K K

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Jul 31, 2019

Good Concepts taught in a easy and logical way..

By Nada A

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Sep 5, 2020

very challenging but ultimately i learned a lot

By K A K

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May 13, 2020

GREAT TEACHING AND THE COURSE IS REALLY HELPFUL

By ONUR Z

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Sep 30, 2016

It's a great introductory course to statistics.

By 黄俊宁

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Feb 7, 2016

优秀的课程，顺带可以学一下R语言，例子比较生动形象，可以作为统计科普及入门的一门不错的课程使用

By Prof. S J A A A

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Mar 3, 2020

very nicely explained , well structure course

By zuoqun m

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Aug 9, 2019

lively examples used in the course of teaching

By stefan k

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Nov 10, 2016

Fantastic !! Very condensed and well explained

By Nazmi A

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Oct 16, 2019

Very good examples to understand the content.

By Adriana M C M

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May 2, 2019

Muy buenas explicaciones y pruebas objetivas.

By Sarah H H

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Feb 22, 2019

Clear and concise. Really enjoyed this class!

By 姚刚

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Jan 8, 2018

Very useful!!! Teachers explained **clearly**

By Jesús C

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Mar 21, 2017

Very good course to get started in statistics

By Ahmad W S

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Apr 22, 2021

It is one of the best Course for beginners.

By Dr.ML. M

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Jul 20, 2020

Reference books and forums shall be included

By Cristina R

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Aug 11, 2017

muy buen curso, espero lo re-activen pronto

By Soomi L

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Jan 2, 2017

Very good to refresh your statistics skills.

By Abhishek P

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Aug 28, 2016

Best course for the beginners in Statistics.