STAT 3660 - Introduction to Statistics

An introduction to statistics for students in the biological and related sciences with an emphasis on the basic concepts and explanations of why things work. The focus is on quantitative reasoning and statistical thinking for making decisions and conjectures. This numerical art will be illustrated with a wide range of interesting problems. Topics include descriptive statistics like means, medians, standard deviation, percentiles; correlation and regression - interpretation and prediction problems; the normal and binomial distributions; law of averages; sampling variability and standard errors; inferential statistics to -confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses for one- and two-sample problems. Students can receive credit for only one of STAT 2160, 2600, 3640, or 3660.

Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: MATH 1100 or the equivalent or satisfactory score on the departmental placement exam.

Credits: 4 hours