64001 DATA ANALYSIS
FACULTY OF SCIENCES 1998
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Credit Points 1.00
Synopsis
Students will be introduced to the concepts involved in descriptive
and inferential statistics. Topics include methods of producing,
exploring, condensing and displaying data, both of single and multiple
variables, elementary probability, the normal distribution, single and
two-sample inference of means and proportions, comparison of
frequencies, correlation and regression. Emphasis will be placed on
how statistics is used in practice and on the presentation and
interpretation of statistical analyses. A computing package and
calculator will be used to facilitate numerical calculation and
graphing.