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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

JB

Sep 9, 2020

Thank You, @University_of_Amsterdam for this wonderful course. I have really benefited a lot from this course. Thank you, Dr. Matthijs Rooduijn for making this course so lively and interesting!!

AR

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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Feb 3, 2021

it is so good

By Franziska W

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May 10, 2020

Simply great!

By Franco S

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Apr 24, 2020

Great course!

By Abdirahman O

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Jan 19, 2018

Great Course.

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May 22, 2017

Great Course.

By Srini K

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May 17, 2016

very good 5.0

By Katelyn D

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Nov 14, 2025

great course

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 26, 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

By Cathy C d D C

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Mar 7, 2016

great course

By FRANCIS D

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Dec 14, 2023

basics good

By Хоменко А В

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Nov 29, 2022

Було цікаво

By PRANSHU K

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Apr 24, 2022

nice cource

By Kaoustav D

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Nov 27, 2021

Good Course

By Thomaz E P L G d A

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Sep 30, 2021

It´s Great.

By Lavanya S

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Sep 22, 2020

Informative

By Veramreddy R

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Aug 20, 2020

very useful

By BHANU

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Jul 19, 2020

Good course

By Md. F A

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Jul 17, 2020

Thats great

By SHUBHANGI G

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May 24, 2020

It was good

By Rijhi D

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May 5, 2020

Good Course

By Ram K M m

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Jan 26, 2020

good course