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.
This course is part of the Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
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Exploring Data
Correlation and Regression
Probability
Probability Distributions
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TOP REVIEWS FROM BASIC STATISTICS
I recommend this course to students with no background statistic knowledge, especially art students like me. The pictures with teachers's explaination make it easy and to understand!
Taking up this course helped me get a crystal clear understanding of the statistics concepts. I would recommend this course to anyone who is trying to learn the basic concepts of statistics. Cheers!
It is not possible to revise the course by reading transcripts only. One has to go through all the videos. Otherwise, it is a very good course and explained in a very simple and easy manner.
great introduction to statistics with no prior knowledge required. Although in parts has been challenging, for me is the right degree of difficulty to push an individual to learning.
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