Name: Basic Statistics
Brand: University of Amsterdam
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.6 (1120 reviews)

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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. Normally, you would not only learn about all these statistical concepts, but you would also be trained to calculate and generate these statistics yourself using freely available statistical software. Due to technical issues we are currently unable to do so. We will try to offer this again soon....

Top reviews

Jan 25, 2019

took the free option. It has been good so far, learning a ton. I find the videos move quickly and after watching them I had to re-read the material, overall i would recommend this course.

Aug 28, 2017

Very Good course. I was pretty much satisfied. R-lab can be improved and better explanations to help us on the test could have been given (after not passing the first time, for example).

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By mohamed a m

May 10, 2021

It was really hard course but so useful and Informative, Great Course, Thank you a lot

By Deleted A

Mar 3, 2021

It helped me in understanding statistics more and it enhances my ability in analyzing.

By V J S G

Aug 19, 2020

Well designed course which created lot of interest to complete the program. Thank you.

By Valeria I

Apr 20, 2020

Very well explained in the videos. The examples given helped very much to understand.

By Maristela H

Jan 23, 2020

This course has a fantastic explanation of Statics concepts. The examples are perfect.

By Ramesh M

Apr 1, 2016

These concpets are explained in a clear and simple methods. Thats helpful to me.

Thanks

By Javier K

Aug 30, 2016

Un curso muy bueno para hacer un repaso claro y conciso a los ejes de la estadística.

By Salim T

Jan 15, 2017

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Thank you!

By huynh t

Sep 29, 2016

What an amazing course!!! This is a very important step for me to enter data science

By Madhvendra S

Jul 13, 2020

This course is excellent . Everything is explained with lot of interesting example.

By Nicholas D

Nov 30, 2017

Very good parallel training switching between statistical theory and practice in R.

By Giang N

Oct 14, 2017

Enthusiastic teachers and very well designed and prepared lecture. Thank you a lot!

By CELIO T

Jan 27, 2022

data camp tool is so easy to use and helps a lot learning statistics by practicing

By Saleem R

Apr 3, 2019

Excellent course for beginners from any subject of study that want to do research.

By Prem M

Nov 2, 2018

It's a really great course for learning the fundamentals of statistics in detail.

By cameron a

Jan 8, 2018

Really useful refresher course for statistics and good tutorials for the R package

By subhransu s

May 19, 2017

Nice Experience an i just loved the Moocs on both basic and inferential statistics

By Vlada S

Mar 13, 2021

Great explanation, very engaging even for a person who initially disliked math ;)

By Elif

Dec 24, 2020

I almost hated statistics but now ? am fall in love with it, thank you very much.

By raunak r

Dec 26, 2016

For people who want to enter the world of statistics...this is the course.PERIOD!

By Ning W

Jun 23, 2016

Teachers have very clear logic to teach and make things very easy to understand.

By Aram S

Jun 5, 2016

I am really enjoying all the courses on Statistics. Thank you to the whole team.

By Eva L

Jul 22, 2017

through all the video, r-lab, and tests, I learnt a lot about basic statistics.

By Julie H

Jul 1, 2024

Very clear and at a good speed to digest the content during the video lectures