Statistics 140 - Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Marie Ozanne
TTH 08:30AM-09:45AM;W 08:30AM-09:20AM
Mount Holyoke College
108132
Clapp Laboratory 306;Clapp Laboratory 306
mozanne@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.