Statistics I

[0.50] credits · Undergraduate

This course focuses on the practical methods of statistics. Topics will include: descriptive statistics; probability; discrete and continuous random variables and their probability distributions, including the binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions; sampling distributions; statistical inference including confidence intervals and hypothesis tests; one- and two-sample inference procedures; one-way analysis of variance; chi-square tests; simple linear regression and correlation. Assignments will deal with real data from the natural sciences and involve the use of statistical software for computing and visualization.