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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 HIMANSHU K

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Nov 18, 2017

Simply explained

By ankur s

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May 15, 2017

EXCELLENT COURSE

By Zhang Q

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Jan 19, 2017

very good course

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Jun 3, 2016

very nice course

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 4, 2020

fantastic topic

By José E B C

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Mar 24, 2019

Bien explicado!

By Deleted A

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Mar 27, 2018

so constructive

By Barbara W

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Jul 25, 2017

great refresher

By 田野

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Mar 16, 2016

Useful and help

By Bijay K

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Mar 12, 2022

Basics learned

By RUIJIE Y

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Nov 28, 2021

Good class!!!

By Peter D

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Mar 28, 2021

Great Course!

By 黄哲恒

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Feb 3, 2021

it is so good

By Franziska W

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May 9, 2020

Simply great!

By Franco S

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Apr 23, 2020

Great course!

By Abdirahman O

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Jan 18, 2018

Great Course.

By Jai J

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May 22, 2017

Great Course.

By Srini K

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May 16, 2016

very good 5.0

By ASHUTOSH K S

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Jan 3, 2022

best subject

By TRANG P Q

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Feb 14, 2021

Great course

By Somsubhra D

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Oct 25, 2020

Good course.

By Murat B

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Nov 13, 2016

fun to learn

By Jack C

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Apr 16, 2016

easy, useful