Biology (BIOL) - Technical Statistics

MATH 1257  Technical Statistics

Restrictions:

This is an introductory statistics course. A student in a degree program cannot retain credit for more than nine credits of introductory statistics courses.

Hours:

Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory work per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This introductory course will give the student an overview of descriptive and inferential statistical methods, with an emphasis on the use of computers for statistical analysis of data. Topics include measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability, probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation analysis, and parametric and non-parametric tests of hypotheses involving two or more populations.