Introduction to Statistics and Data Science
STAT 100
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Course Information
Description
Introduction to key ideas underlying statistical and quantitative reasoning, and the practice of data science. Course topics include methods for organizing, summarizing and visualizing data; basics of probability; elements of study design; data ethics; parameter estimation and hypothesis testing in one- and two-sample problems; regression with one or more predictors; and basic analysis of categorical data. Students will learn a reproducible workflow for analyzing data in the statistics package R. No prior statistics or computing knowledge is assumed.
Course Notes
Anti-Req: this course may not be taken for credit if STAT 102, STAT 104, STAT 111, STAT 139, STAT 149, or STAT 244 already complete. This course requires students to choose timed sections during registration.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
NOTE: This course requires additional sections; you will be prompted to choose secondary components during the Add to Cart process
