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Statistical Sciences 023a/b Statistical Concepts

An examination of statistical issues encountered in everyday life. Assessment of the validity of results and treatment of data in the popular and scientific media. Causation vs. association, and confounding in observational studies. The organization of data including tables, scatterplots and time series. Some basic tools to handle uncertainty such as means, variances, the normal distribution and confidence intervals.

Prerequisites: Any OAC or Grade 12U Mathematics or Mathematics 012a/b or 017a/b.
3 lecture hours, half course.


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