| Course Title: Introduction to the Ideas and Applications of Statistics |
| Start Date: 01/23/2023 End Date: 05/08/2023 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2023 |
| 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 |
| Isabelle Beaudry | ibeaudry@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2023 - 05/08/2023 | Lecture | Monday, Wednesday and Friday | 11:30AM - 12:45PM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 407 | 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: 28 | Enrollment: 24 | Available: 4 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Stats: Data and Models Author: De Veaux, Richard, Paul F. Velleman, and David E. Bock Copyright: Edition: 4 Volume: ISBN: 9780321986498 Publisher: Pearson |
Recommended | 224.20 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |