MATH 117 - Introduction to Statistical Reasoning

Credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): None.
A survey of statistical concepts and reasoning. This course will focus on the role that statistics plays in the real-world and in our lives. Instead of mathematical rigor, students will learn how to collect data through sampling and experimentation, read graphical and numerical summaries, understand change phenomena, and to interpret statistical inferences made by confidence intervals and hypothesis tests. Will include reading articles that are statistically oriented.