Section Info: STAT-140-03

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        
Ben Pittman-Polletta             benpolletta@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024   Lecture   Monday, Wednesday and Friday   03:15PM - 04:30PM   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: Waitlisted     Capacity: 28     Enrollment: 28     Available: 0     Waitlist: 1
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
Title: Introduction to Modern Statistics
Author: Çetinkaya-Rundel, Mine
Copyright: 2024
Edition: 2
Volume:
ISBN: 1943450277
Publisher: OpenIntro, Inc 		Optional   25.00  
Title: OpenIntro Statistics
Author: Diez, David
Copyright: 2023
Edition: 4
Volume:
ISBN: 1943450226
Publisher: OpenIntro, Inc. 		Optional   26.74  
Title: Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyver
Author: Ismay, Chester
Copyright: 2019
Edition: 1
Volume:
ISBN: 0367409828
Publisher: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 		Optional   56.84  

Additional Book Comments        
This is the complete book list for this class.