Statistics are used everywhere in the modern world. Polls influence government policy decisions. Clinical trials determine approvals of drugs for human use. DNA matching, based on statistical tests, is used as evidence in court. Samples are taken in countless fields to learn about larger populations. This course covers descriptive statistics, entailing measures of central tendency and dispersion, linear regression, and Pearson correlation; and inferential statistics, including normal distributions and hypothesis testing.
- Teacher: Barbara Mcmullen