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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 Amod V

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Jul 7, 2017

Excellent course for basic statistics !

By Yuning S

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Mar 1, 2017

very useful for BA psychology students!

By Aida M

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Sep 9, 2016

Thank you very much! I learned so much!

By Rambabu “ M

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May 28, 2016

Amazing teaching for wonderful subject.

By SANDIPAN G

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Feb 3, 2021

very good course increase my knowledge

By Amanda M

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Mar 16, 2018

Super easy details to learn statistics

By LECONTE M

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Apr 17, 2017

Very good course and very interesting.

By Zhao R

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Jun 29, 2016

The best course I've ever enrolled in.

By Joshi E

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Nov 26, 2020

Recommend it for a practical learning

By MANAS S

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Nov 1, 2018

IT WAS GREAT FUN LEARNING THIS COURSE

By Antonio D T

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Dec 17, 2017

Excellent introduction to statistics!

By Rakesh R

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Jul 8, 2017

Wonderful course for learning basics.

By Milad

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Feb 7, 2017

it was truly helpful! thank you guys!

By Xiaoxiao Z

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Sep 18, 2016

Really a good course. Worth learning.

By Mohammad N R

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Jan 31, 2016

That is a great comprehensive course!

By Muskan j

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Nov 20, 2021

A very insightful and useful course.

By Ale C

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Feb 17, 2021

It was perfect !!! so well explained

By Sachin J

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Sep 8, 2020

Its an extraordinary course to learn

By Nan H

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Jun 2, 2020

This is a good course, I gain a lot!

By Vikram C

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Jul 31, 2018

Good course with excellent examples!

By Sanket K

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Jun 14, 2016

Excellent presentation of concepts!!

By Narek

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Apr 30, 2016

The best introduction to Statistics.

By AIKATERINI P

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Jan 10, 2021

Excellent course!!

I recommend it!!!

By Vera C

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Nov 2, 2020

Very cool course! I liked it a lot!