Statistics 140 - Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics

Fall
2017
03
4.00
Janice Gifford
TTH 11:30AM-12:45PM;F 03:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
100586
Clapp Laboratory 407;Clapp Laboratory 407
jgifford@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.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.