Statistics 140 - Introduction to the Ideas and Applications of Statistics
Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics
Fall
2023
01
4.00
Laurie Tupper
MWF 08:30AM-09:45AM
Mount Holyoke College
121612
Clapp Laboratory 402
ltupper@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.