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BIOL 243

Introduction to Statistics

3.00 units · Undergraduate

Fall 2025

Topics

  • Welcome to Introduction to Statistics
  • Anatomy of a Statistical Study
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Probability
  • Hypothesis Testing and T-Tests
  • Linear Regression
  • Single-Factor ANOVA
  • Two-Factor ANOVA
  • Critical thinking
  • Learning
  • Research design

Readings

  • Required: Course Textbooks Edition (s) Publisher
Fall 2024

Topics

  • Anatomy of a Statistical Study
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Probability
  • /8 - Hypothesis Testing and T-Tests
  • Linear Regression
  • Single-Factor ANOVA
  • Two-Factor ANOVA
  • Critical thinking
  • Learning
  • Research design
Fall 2023

Topics

  • Anatomy of a Statistical Study
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Probability
  • /8 - Hypothesis Testing and T-tests
  • Linear Regression
  • Single-Factor ANOVA
  • Two-Factor ANOVA
  • Inferential statistics
  • Analysis of variance
  • Statistical inference
  • Learning
  • Research design
Fall 2022

Topics

  • Anatomy of a Statistical Study
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Probability
  • Hypothesis Testing and T-tests
  • Linear Regression
  • Introduction to Statistics
  • Single-Factor ANOVA
  • Two-Factor ANOVA
  • Critical thinking
  • Learning
  • Research design

Readings

  • Listed material: Top Hat ‘clicker’ questions will be used during lectures to check in with your understanding of key concepts, and to navigate case studies as a class.
  • Listed material: Arts and Science Calculator Policy
  • Listed material: Introduction to Statistics Syllabus Fall 2022
Fall 2021

Topics

  • Anatomy of a Statistical Study
  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Probability
  • Hypothesis Testing and T-tests
  • Linear Regression
  • Single-Factor ANOVA
  • Two-Factor ANOVA
  • Critical thinking
  • Learning
  • Research design

Readings

  • Listed material: Arts and Science Calculator Policy
2020-2021

Topics

  • Critical thinking
  • Probability
  • Statistics
  • Learning
  • Research design
2017-2018

Topics

  • Inferential statistics
  • Experimental design
  • Probability
  • Correlation
  • Regression
  • Analysis of variance
  • Learning
  • Research design

Readings

  • Required: Top Hat Software Interactive course platform.
  • Required: Website: https://tophat.com/
2015-2016

Topics

  • Inferential statistics
  • Experimental design
  • Probability
  • Correlation
  • Regression
  • Analysis of variance
  • Learning
  • Research design

Readings

  • Required: Top Hat Software Interactive course platform.
  • Required: Website: https://tophat.com/
2014-2015

Topics

  • Probability (Introduction), Finding Probability of Events
  • Weeks 8-9: Hypothesis Testing
  • Weeks 10-12: Inference For Relationships
  • Statistics
  • Research design

Readings

  • Listed material: Acrobatiq Probability and Statistics (http://acrobatiq.com/), Calculator Casio FX 991
2013-2014

Topics

  • Course introduction/Statistics in Biology—a tool to uncover processes
  • Statistical literacy: understanding and writing about statistics in scientific papers and the popular press
  • Language
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