General Description

The course is oriented toward learning to handle data – from collection to description to formal inference. The SAS/Windows package will be used for class illustration, but any high-quality PC statistics package (e.g. SPSS, Statistica, Systat) will suffice.

The course is solid training in basic statistical methods and a firm foundation for further graduate work in statistics.

Topics:

• Overview of Statistics
• Descriptive Statistics for Univariate Data
• Descriptive Statistics for Bivariate Data
• Probability Pre-requites for Inference
• Introduce Statistical Inference
• Inference for Normally Distributed Data
• Experimental Design