Summer I 2024
CRN: 21140
STAT 3660 - Data Analysis for Biosciences

An introduction to statistics for students in the biological and related sciences with an emphasis on the basic concepts and explanations of why things work. The focus is on quantitative reasoning and statistical thinking for making decisions and conjectures. This numerical art will be illustrated with a wide range of interesting problems. Topics include descriptive statistics like means, medians, standard deviation, percentiles; correlation and regression - interpretation and prediction problems; the normal and binomial distributions; law of averages; sampling variability and standard errors; inferential statistics to -confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses for one- and two-sample problems. This course satisfies WMU Essential Studies Level 2: Exploration and Discovery – Science and Technology Category.

Additional Information

Campus: Online Education
Schedule Type: Lecture
Instructional Method: Online Semester
Attribute: Intellectual Inquiry SLO           P3: Coll Level Quant Reason           Scientific Literacy SLO           Science and Technology

Course Fees:
Stat Data ANLYS Class Fee $20.00 Flat Fee
Prerequisites and Restrictions:
 MATH 1100  Minimum Grade of C  OR
 MATH 110   Minimum Grade of C  OR
 MATH 1110  Minimum Grade of C  OR
 MATH 111   Minimum Grade of C  OR
 ACT Math 19  OR
 SAT Mathematics 460  OR
 Math Online Placement Exam 07  OR
 Placement Results % 30
Instructor(s): McKean, Carrie J (Primary)

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