MATH 209: Applied Statistics

Spring 2006
1:00 - 2:05 pm, MWF
ARH 124

Course Goals

Data inform the decisions that people make and help us learn about our world. Companies, governments, organizations, scholars, and citizens of all stripes can benefit from understanding how to collect, analyze, and interpret data. This course is about that process.

Particular goals of the course are:

To understand basic concepts in data production and data quality.
To learn basic techniques for analyzing data sets, but with a conceptual emphasis on that understanding.
To appreciate the role that data play in making decisions or in improving our understanding of the world.
To gain facility in communicating quantitative information.

Textbook

The course textbook is Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods, by Beth L. Chance and Allan J. Rossman.

Instructor:

Thomas Moore

Office Hours

Course web page: http://www.math.grin.edu/~mooret/courses/math209/index.html

General Info

Assessment
All Homework Assignments are on PioneerWeb

ISCAM links

NOTE: Data sets also available on my storage server: grin > storage > sciences > mooret > ISCAM-Data