This course is designed for students who are completely new to the world of statistics and for those who have the feeling that many statistical concepts they learned about earlier are not present to them anymore. Relying on theoretical input and applied exercises, this interactive lecture covers all those topics that need to belong to students’ procedural knowledge in order to be able to follow the topics covered by the Psychological methods module.

Course contents
• Empirical research, variables and scales
• Statistical parameter
• Graphical data visualization
• Probability theory
• Probability distributions
• Statistical sampling
• Hypothesis testing
• Testing hypothesis on differences
• Correlation
• Simple linear regression