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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 Shi S

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Mar 17, 2017

Great course for beginners:S

By Fan M

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Feb 23, 2017

Great course, useful and fun

By Rejane R d C P

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Nov 5, 2020

Excellent course. Thanks!!!

By Deleted A

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Apr 17, 2018

The dutch know how to teach

By Vicente A A A

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Oct 26, 2016

Simple, Concise and Awesome

By bellahuang

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Mar 2, 2016

I like these two lecturers!

By Santosh H

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May 7, 2021

Excellent course materials

By MANJULABHARATHI A

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May 28, 2020

It's really amazing course

By Md S M

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Sep 5, 2019

Great course on Statistics

By Benedict V

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Aug 26, 2019

This course is a good one.

By Asim I A

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Apr 14, 2020

good course thank trainer

By Chengyi L

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Apr 14, 2020

Excellent beginner class!

By Andres G

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Dec 10, 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 Onédio S S J

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Mar 14, 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 6, 2018

excellent presentations.

By Kaushal K S

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Sep 11, 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 27, 2017

Best statistics course!