Description: Lecture, two and one half hours; discussion, one hour. Core statistics course builds on research methods taught in course 213A, and designed to help students develop basic understanding of descriptive and inferential statistical approaches. Introduction to statistical reasoning, with emphasis on how statistics can help us understand world. Topics include numerical and graphical summaries of data, data acquisition and experimental design, probability, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, correlation, and regression. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0