STS 2720 A Statistics in Application W/R
Instructor permission required. An introduction to concepts in statistics at a deeper quantitative level than that offered in
STS 1100. This course emphasizes rationales, applications and interpretations using advanced statistical software (R and SAS). Examples are drawn primarily from economics, education, psychology, sociology, political science, biology and medicine. Topics include introductory design of experiments, data acquisition, data cleaning and manipulation, data visualization, descriptive statistics, one- and two-sample inferential techniques, simple/multiple regression, goodness of fit and independence, one-way/two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Written reports link statistical theory and practice with communication of results. Projects will promote student facility with multiple statistical software. Recommended for students pursuing quantitatively-based careers. Students will receive equivalency credit for
STS 2120.
Course Types
First-Year Foundations
Offered
Fall 2022