Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2019

MATH 105   Introduction to Statistics
Credits1
Restrictions
Pre-RequisitesThree years of secondary school mathematics
Co-Requisites
Core Area
Area of InquiryNatural Sciences & Mathematics
Liberal Arts Practices

An introduction to the basic concepts of statistics. Topics include experimental design, descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, basic probability, mean tendencies, the central limit theorem, point estimation with errors, hypothesis testing for means, proportions, paired data, and the chi-squared test for independence. Emphasis is on statistical reasoning rather than computation, although computation is done via software.