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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Improving your statistical inferences by Eindhoven University of Technology

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About the Course

This course aims to help you to draw better statistical inferences from empirical research. First, we will discuss how to correctly interpret p-values, effect sizes, confidence intervals, Bayes Factors, and likelihood ratios, and how these statistics answer different questions you might be interested in. Then, you will learn how to design experiments where the false positive rate is controlled, and how to decide upon the sample size for your study, for example in order to achieve high statistical power. Subsequently, you will learn how to interpret evidence in the scientific literature given widespread publication bias, for example by learning about p-curve analysis. Finally, we will talk about how to do philosophy of science, theory construction, and cumulative science, including how to perform replication studies, why and how to pre-register your experiment, and how to share your results following Open Science principles. In practical, hands on assignments, you will learn how to simulate t-tests to learn which p-values you can expect, calculate likelihood ratio's and get an introduction the binomial Bayesian statistics, and learn about the positive predictive value which expresses the probability published research findings are true. We will experience the problems with optional stopping and learn how to prevent these problems by using sequential analyses. You will calculate effect sizes, see how confidence intervals work through simulations, and practice doing a-priori power analyses. Finally, you will learn how to examine whether the null hypothesis is true using equivalence testing and Bayesian statistics, and how to pre-register a study, and share your data on the Open Science Framework. All videos now have Chinese subtitles. More than 30.000 learners have enrolled so far! If you enjoyed this course, I can recommend following it up with me new course "Improving Your Statistical Questions"...

Top reviews

VM

Jul 10, 2021

Solid course which taught me how to interpret p-values in a variety of contexts and taught me to not just to consider but (systematic and practical) ways of how to correct for publication bias.

JH

May 10, 2018

Sooo good! Cant even begin to explain how essential and wonderful this understanding is!Great thanks to Dr Daniel! Such an expert in the field!Thank you Dr!

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By Robert C P

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Jan 21, 2018

This course is a great complement to other statistics related courses. Instead of spending time on a bunch of formulas, this class is more about best practices and how to (correctly) apply some of the basic statistical methods.

By Matteo M

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Aug 5, 2020

Great course to dig a bit deeper into some very useful statistical concept. 4 starts as many of the contents are not "open" as the course preaches (see Microsoft Office documents or GPower).

By Lior Z

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Oct 10, 2018

Great course! Highly recommended.

One thing to improve - I would like to see more theory behind the different effect sizes (eta-squared/omega squared/etc)

By Ramón G M

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Apr 23, 2018

I recovered my faith in statistics with this course.

Makes me alert not to believe every effect I see in the data.

Teaches to do good science.

By Max R

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Nov 29, 2019

It was nice. I initially hoped the course would have made some technical details intuitively graspable, but it was fine as it is.

By Mage I

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Jun 20, 2018

The course was very useful, I enjoyed Daniel's advice. However, I wasn't able to make R work, so I couldn't do the exams.

By Sanne D

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May 27, 2018

Questions are sometimes hard to understand if you are not a native speaker of the English language

By Leanne C

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Jan 3, 2019

Very informative course, well taught and with lots of useful practice built into the assignments.

By Wong J K

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Nov 27, 2020

Excellent course to better understand statistics

By Elías E

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Jul 29, 2019

Very informative.

By YAO Y

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Nov 27, 2016

The video is ok, but it lacks a lot of details in calculation. The assignment is very confusing because some questions refer to some 'previous' statement while fail to clarify which is related.

By Emmanuel A

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Jun 21, 2019

I started just today and I'm beginning to love the course

By Renate G

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Oct 18, 2022

Week 7 did not add any value to the course.

By Dashakol

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Sep 21, 2018

I dropped the course at Lecture 1.2 when it was supposed to really teach me what is p-value but it failed. A 20 min video without telling much about p-value and also adding more confusion and unanswered questions at the end. Like what is p-value distribution?

I expected to receive a decent step by step tutorial on statistics starting from basics but it was just another convoluted stuff on statistics.

By Henry K

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Feb 16, 2026

Utterly useless. The instructions are outdated and many R codes are no longer valid. Also the assessment and practice materials do NOT correspond to the content instructor teaches (usually much harder and often display new terms which require self-study). 99.9999% sure the rating is faked.