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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 Jerry X

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Jan 21, 2016

Very clear and awesome!

By Daragh T

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Jan 19, 2016

Very well put together.

By Sesha S

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May 16, 2021

Very Good . Keep it up

By Safdar R

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Jul 22, 2020

one of the best course

By 赵博威

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Mar 21, 2020

very funny, I LOVE IT!

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Apr 13, 2019

Nice and clear courses

By Matias A

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Jul 8, 2017

Awesome Well done guys

By Muhammad A

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Jun 22, 2017

great course

Thank you

By Sudharsanan M R

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Sep 2, 2016

Its Awesome experience

By ANGHAN D B

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Sep 3, 2022

thank you good course

By RAKESH K B

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Jun 29, 2020

Very difficult course

By Divya S 1

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Jun 6, 2020

a very helpful course

By Aayush A

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Apr 2, 2018

Excellent!! Loved it.

By Syarif M

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Dec 3, 2016

Highly recomended!!!!

By Okan E

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Feb 6, 2016

It is very helpfull .

By Peter H

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Sep 10, 2020

simple and essential

By George P

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Dec 12, 2016

Great for beginners!

By Mostapha M

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Jun 14, 2016

Great Presentation !

By Megha J

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Jun 7, 2020

very amazing course

By Bharath R

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May 31, 2020

superb app to learn

By Fereshteh Z

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Apr 13, 2020

Very useful course.

By 刘又一

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Mar 17, 2016

Makes you thinking.

By Yangxi Z

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Mar 10, 2016

easy to understand.

By JORIE C R

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Apr 17, 2021

Thank you so much!

By Emad K

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Jan 23, 2018

Easy to understand