Environmental Statistics

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 10, 12, 13, or 15, and 20 or 21. Focus on practical understanding and application of statistical tools for environmental datasets. Topics include brief overview of concepts in probability, distributions, and hypothesis testing; developing and assessing regression models; multidimensional data exploration; time series analysis; and spatial modeling. Relevant examples in the scientific literature are drawn upon, and analyses of real-world datasets are performed. Small groups complete and present a project analyzing a relevant dataset of choice. P/NP or letter grading.