Statistics for Students in the Sciences

Three credits · Undergraduate

Topics include descriptive statistics; data collection, tabulation, and presentation; measures of central tendency and variability; elementary probability; binomial, normal and chi-square distributions; parameter estimation and tests of hypotheses; linear regression and correlation. Students will learn about statistical significance and the communication of statistical evidence and be introduced to a statistics computer package. Credit will be granted for only one of STAT 231, STAT 101, STAT 224, or PSYC 292 (290). Prerequisite: One of MATH 107, 122, 127. Three credits and one-hour lab.