STAT297B: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS II.

COURSE DESCRIPTION A second course in statistics for a general audience, concentrating on the most widely used statistical methods. Aside from a brief review of sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing, topics will include: two-sample procedures for means, proportions, and variances; analysis of variance (one- and two-factor designs); chi-square tests for count data, including tests of goodness-of-fit and of independence or homogeneity in contingency tables; basic ideas in quality control; simple and multiple linear regression; plus other topics as time permits. Applications of these methods to problems in many fields will be illustrated. Data analysis will be performed using the Minitab statistical computer package (no previous computing experience is required).

PREREQUISITE: any one of STAT140, RESEC211, RESEC212, SOC212, PSYCH240 or the equivalent.

STAT297B is a follow-up to STAT140, ResEC211, ResEC212, SOC212, PSYCH240, and other such introductory Statistics courses for a general audience. It will cover material similar to the latter part of STAT501, but at a slower pace than STAT501 (STAT501 covers most of the material in both STAT140 and STAT297B, all in one semester). It is also similar to FOMGT250, but with a broader view than business applications. The focus of STAT297B will be on methods of statistics, with applications to examples drawn from many fields.

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Note: If you are intending to register for STAT297B, please contact Prof. Tsimikas as soon as possible.