| Course Title: Introduction to the Ideas and Applications of Statistics |
| Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024 |
| Term: Fall 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 |
| Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas | iami@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024 | Lecture | Monday, Wednesday and Friday | 10:00AM - 11:15AM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 203 | 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: 26 | Available: 2 | 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 |
| Title: Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyver Author: Ismay, Chester Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0367409828 Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group |
Required | 56.84 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Important: all 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/ Modern Dive: https://moderndive.com/ You will need to be able to access each of these 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. |