Statistics 140 - Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics
Spring
2013
01
4.00
Ji Young Kim
TTH 01:15PM-02:30PM;F 09:00AM-09:50AM
Mount Holyoke College
83499
Clapp Laboratory 407;Clapp Laboratory 407
jiykim@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.