Statistics 140 - Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics
Fall
2013
02
4.00
Weston Viles;Weston Viles
TTH 08:35AM-09:50AM;M 03:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
84976
Clapp Laboratory 306;Clapp Laboratory 306
wviles@mtholyoke.edu;wviles@mtholyoke.edu
'This course provides an overview of statistical methods, their conceptual underpinnings, and their use in various settings taken from current news, as well as from the physical, biological, and social sciences. Topics will include exploring distributions and relationships, planning for data production, sampling distributions, basic ideas of inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis tests), inference for distributions, and inference for relationships, including chi-square methods for two-way tables and regression.'
Prereq. 2 years of high school algebra