| Course Title: Introduction to the Ideas and Applications of Statistics |
| Start Date: 09/04/2019 End Date: 12/17/2019 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2019 |
| Description: 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. |
| Distribution(s): II - Math & Sciences |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Marie Ozanne | mozanne@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019 | Lecture | Tuesday and Thursday | 08:30AM - 09:45AM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 306 | Weekly |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019 | Fourth Hour of Class | Wednesday | 08:30AM - 09:20AM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 306 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| DATA0001 | DATA-SCI: Data Science Core Course | This is a required core course of the Data Science major. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: OpenIntro Statistics Author: Diez, Cetinkaya-Rundel, Barr, David, Mine, Christopher Copyright: 2019 Edition: 4 Volume: ISBN: 9781943450077 Publisher: OpenIntro |
Required | 20.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: This book may be downloaded as a free PDF at openintro.org/os. A paper copy can be purchased on amazon.com. |