HSTATS-451 Introductory Statistics

Prerequisite: none. This course is an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistical concepts and methods. Topics include grouping of data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability concepts and distributions, sampling, statistical estimation, and statistical hypothesis testing. This course emphasizes the conceptual application of statistics. Although there will be minimal emphasis placed on the mathematical, derivation of the formulas, an understanding of simple algebra and basic math (decimals, percents and probability) is presumed.

Credits

3