Learner Reviews & Feedback for Basic Statistics by University of Amsterdam
About the Course
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 corr...
Top reviews
AV
Jun 27, 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 30, 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 Steph B
•Dec 27, 2020
Some info was presented really quickly and the course notes didn't help. Very shallow explanation. Having a recommended textbook that go into more depth would have been great
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 25, 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 10, 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 15, 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 5, 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 28, 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