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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...
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    Jun 28, 2020

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    Excellent explanations. Strong examples. Helpful exercises. Highly recommended for anyone who ever has to conduct inferential statistics or read anything that reports a p value or bayes factor.

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    Mar 1, 2017

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    Excellent course. The lecturer has written code snippets that let the students visualize the meaning and interrelationship of p-values confidence-intervals power effect-size bayesian-inference.

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    Nov 2, 2016

    Great lectures and really helpful simulations. Very engaging and interesting. Full of useful resources.

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    May 28, 2020

    Highly recommendable course. It puts clarity from the most basic concepts to some other new insights.

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    Dec 10, 2016

    Extremely useful cours, especially the first 5 weeks! Pleasant and enjoyable. Definitely recommended!

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    Jul 31, 2020

    excellent course. It solves lots of my question over the p value as well as the statistic analysis.

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    Dec 29, 2016

    Easy to follow, light workload, and most importantly: very useful material of supreme importance.

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    Aug 14, 2019

    Great course. Already had some knowledge about statistics, but this course really improved it.

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    Sep 23, 2023

    Challenging, but you learn a lot! Took some time, but it was worth it. Thanks for the course!

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    By Rahul P S

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    Sep 21, 2021

    The instructor has explained fine details in statistical inferences. Very informative course.

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    May 28, 2021

    Awesome course! I've had amost given up on learning this topic. Thanks for renewing my faith

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    By Mr. J

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    Feb 24, 2020

    Superbly Done synopsis of statistical gotchas and best practice against them. Very Valauble.

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    By Andrés B

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    Oct 18, 2022

    Buen curso, excelentes explicaciones. Todo lo evaluado se enseña previamente. Recomendado!

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    By Morio C

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    Jan 2, 2020

    Great course, clear and helpful. I will definitely recommend it to colleagues and students.

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    By Tamires M

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    Nov 30, 2020

    I never thought I would say that about statistics, but: It was fun! Thank you Dr. Lakens!

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    By Patrick H

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    Aug 10, 2020

    This course should be taken by any psychologist (and actually anyone who does statistics)

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    Jan 23, 2017

    Probably the best stats course I've ever taken (and also the most fun and enlightening)!

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    Aug 21, 2020

    This course was very useful. I recommend it to anyone who wants to deepen these topics.

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    By Sergey L

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    Jan 1, 2020

    The course is full of useful insights and practices. I can definitely recommend it!

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    By Gerald R

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    Sep 2, 2017

    a very thoughtful introduction to the different approaches of statistical reasoning

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    By Aida H

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    Apr 21, 2023

    Great job! Very important and up-to-date content on statistics and data analysis.

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    By Aviv E

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    Jul 17, 2017

    Great course, lots of new tools and materials that really helped me in my study.

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    By Linda

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    Sep 16, 2020

    very well presented by D. Lakens. It was a difficult course but very rewarding.

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    Jan 22, 2019

    Great course. A lot of topics introduced and explored. Well worth the time.

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    By Bertin

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    Nov 17, 2018

    This course is amazing, dynamic and entertaining. Daniel Lakens is brilliant.

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