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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 Arshad M

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Aug 28, 2020

really help me in clearing my basic

By Prashant N

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Aug 27, 2020

thank you for the excellent course

By Anil K

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Jul 30, 2020

Great and difficult course. Great!!

By Elma W

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Jun 20, 2018

Clear explanations, great teachers.

By zoe

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Nov 23, 2017

humorous and a lot of fun and gains

By R v

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Feb 16, 2017

Fantastic course. Best in the world

By ram H

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Aug 31, 2021

it was a great course for learning

By Gaurav S

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Jul 5, 2021

Thankyou for creating this content

By Niraj K

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May 29, 2021

Thank you for this amazing course!

By Akash k y

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Jun 11, 2019

I like this it's quite interesting

By Jamila H

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Jun 1, 2021

Challenging, but I learned a LOT!

By Katia G

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May 5, 2021

Nice course. Very well structured

By SRI B P J

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Jul 22, 2020

Awesome course for mathematicians

By Md S

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Jul 14, 2020

I learned a lot from this course.

By PP

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Mar 5, 2017

Thanks for making things simpler.

By Partha S

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Feb 9, 2016

its carried out in excellent way.

By Peng Z

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Jan 21, 2022

Very concise and straightforward

By Tung T L

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Jul 1, 2021

Good class with good instructor.

By Kosta K

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Nov 28, 2020

Very vivid and very informative!

By Валера О

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May 24, 2020

Greatfull courses for beginners!

By Siddhant

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Sep 10, 2018

Very nice examples and questions

By naga

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Feb 27, 2017

Good course on basic statistics.

By Rajesh S B

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Oct 19, 2016

Contents are very well explained

By Xie Q

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Aug 2, 2016

It is absolutely a great course!