This is a course in basic statistics. Statistical methodologies are increasingly used in various disciplines, e.g., data science, applied statistics, business, and computational social science. The main goal of this course is to provide students with an introduction to different types of quantitative research methods and statistical techniques. This course primarily covers two components: 1) methods for quantitative research, and 2) quantitative statistical methods for data analysis. With these, we hope you will obtain knowledge necessary to do high quality scholarly research and more efficient and effective practice in your daily tasks. In particular, it involves learning statistical inference under which you should be able to digest publications about new methods, implement these methods, apply them to your data, interpret results, and explain them to others. In addition, we also expect you to know how to write and publish your novel work in some journals.