Statistics 140 - Introduction to the Ideas and Applications of Statistics

Intro Ideas/Applic Statistics

Fall
2023
04
4.00
Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel

MWF 03:15PM-04:30PM

Mount Holyoke College
121609
Clapp Laboratory 402
ahoyerle@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.