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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 tressie p

Jan 4, 2020

I was expecting to learn basic statistic before diving into the programming. I did not take this class to get familiar with R programming. And it slow me down.

By Christina P

Oct 26, 2017

It was a really nice and informative course. As a statistics rookie, I can say with confidence that I now know the basics of Statistics! Thank you very much!

By Manish G

Jan 26, 2022

Couse name should mention something like Basic statistics with 'R since it cover pretty good amoing of R language

By LADDEN D N U

Oct 11, 2020

VERY INFORMATIVE COURSE, YET I AM NOT THAT FAN OF THE rLAB BECAUSE OF THEIR INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE HARD TO GET.

By Bhupesh P

Mar 3, 2017

Course material is not enough, you need to also refer at least one reference book as well.

By Alexandria W

Jul 17, 2022

Certain concpets are not well explained and some of the examples are actually incorrect.

By Yutian L

May 16, 2017

if we can have a review before the final exam will help a lot. and the r lab is so hard.

By Troy B

Jun 6, 2021

good information but the coding is far too difficult for a class of this level

By Jon H

Jun 20, 2022

Requires a working knowledge of R. Also not exactly an introductory course.

By DANI M F

Oct 30, 2024

it is sometimes buggy which delayed me a bit, but it turns out well

By Pankaj M

Nov 25, 2016

2 Stars less because they should have included R video tutorials

By SUNEWAD R L

Aug 1, 2020

good for the users , who wants to learn R lab coading.

By Kevin H

Mar 29, 2021

The R Labs are hard to understand and very difficult

By Salaheddin A

Jun 20, 2024

the probability Doctor was very bad

By ASHISH D

Nov 9, 2024

the course was quite informative

By Deleted A

Apr 26, 2021

It would be better without R lab

By ANNES F K B

Apr 4, 2025

A little complicated for me.

By Sujoy S

Jun 2, 2019

Very tuff quiz questions

By Rasmus B

Jun 29, 2019

quite hard

By رهف ا

Apr 29, 2025

Great!

By asha s m

Jul 2, 2020

THANKS

By DEVIREDDY V P

Jan 18, 2024

good

By Navya V

Aug 2, 2020

good

By Mutcherla S

May 30, 2020

good