Section Info: STAT-140-01

Course Title: Introduction to the Ideas and Applications of Statistics
Start Date: 01/23/2024 End Date: 05/07/2024
Term: Spring Semester 2024
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        
Tori Day             day22v@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
01/23/2024 - 05/07/2024   Lecture   Monday, Wednesday and Friday   10:00AM - 11:15AM   CLAP - Clapp Laboratory   407   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

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: Closed     Capacity: 28     Enrollment: 28     Available: 0     Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
Title: OpenIntro Statistics
Author: Diez, Cetinkaya-Rundel, Barr, David, Mine, Christopher
Copyright: 2019
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 9781943450077
Publisher: OpenIntro
Optional   20.00  
Title: Introduction to Modern Statistics
Author: Cetinkaya-Rundel, Mine, and Johanna Hardin
Copyright: 2021
Edition:
Volume:
ISBN: 1943450145
Publisher: OpenIntro
Optional   20.00  

Additional Book Comments        
This is the complete book list for this class.  
Instructor's comments about the book list: Both of our textbooks are open source textbooks that are available for free through the following websites: OpenIntro Statistics: https://www.openintro.org/book/os/ Intro to Modern Statistics: https://www.openintro.org/book/ims/ You will need to be able to access both texts; but you are not required to purchase a hard copy of either. If you would like to purchase a hard copy of either of them, you can find the information for how to do so on the above websites.