| Course Title: Introduction to the Ideas and Applications of Statistics |
| Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
| Term: Fall 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 |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Lecture | Monday, Wednesday and Friday | 10:00AM - 11:15AM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 401 | 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: 13 | Available: 15 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Data Analysis for Social Science Author: Llaudet, Elena Copyright: 2023 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780691199429 Publisher: Princeton University Press |
Required | 45.00 |
| Title: OpenIntro Statistics Author: Diez, Cetinkaya-Rundel, Barr, David, Mine, Christopher Copyright: 2019 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781943450077 Publisher: OpenIntro |
Required | 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 NOT the complete book list for this class. |