Section Info: STAT-140-03

Course Title: Introduction to the Ideas and Applications of Statistics

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

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
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Lecture	Monday, Wednesday and Friday	01:45PM - 03:00PM	TBA	TBA	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: 5

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
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.