Introduction to statistical methods/reasoning, including descriptive methods, data-gathering (experimental design and sample surveys), probability, interval estimation, significance tests, one- and two-sample problems, categorical data analysis, correlation and regression. Emphasis on applications to the natural and social sciences. Students cannot receive credit for this course if they have already received credit for STAT 7. (Formerly AMS 5.)
Instructor
Herbert Lee, Athanasios Kottas, Bruno Sanso, Bruno Mendes, Yonathan Katznelson, David Draper, Marcela Alfaro
General Education Code
SR
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Case-study-based introduction to statistical methods as practiced in the biological, environmental, and health sciences. Descriptive methods, experimental design, probability, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, one- and two-sample problems, power and sample size calculations, simple correlation and simple linear regression, one-way analysis of variance, categorical data analysis. (Formerly AMS 7.)
Instructor
The Staff, Herbert Lee, Raquel Prado, Bruno Mendes, David Draper, Ju Hee Lee, Rajarshi Guhaniyogi
General Education Code
SR
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Computer-based laboratory course in which students gain hands-on experience in analysis of data sets arising from statistical problem-solving in the biological, environmental, and health sciences. Descriptive methods, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, one-and two-sample problems, correlation and regression, one-way analysis of variance, categorical data analysis. (Formerly AMS 7L.)
Instructor
The Staff, Herbert Lee, Raquel Prado, David Draper, Ju Hee Lee, Rajarshi Guhaniyogi
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Games of chance and strategy motivated early developments in probability, statistics, and decision theory. Course uses popular games to introduce students to these concepts, which underpin recent scientific developments in economics, genetics, ecology, and physics. (Formerly AMS 80A.)
Instructor
Herbert Lee, Athanasios Kottas, Bruno Mendes, Rajarshi Guhaniyogi
General Education Code
SR
Quarter offered
Fall, Winter
Introduces the use of complex-data graphical representations to extract information from data. Topics include: summary statistics, boxplots, histograms, dotplots, scatterplots, bubble plots, and map-creation, as well as visualization of trees and hierarchies, networks and graphs, and text. (Formerly AMS 80B.)
General Education Code
SR