- Year: Fall 2015
- Course Number: MATH 171 – Statistical decision making
- Description: “An elementary statistics course designed to give students a working knowledge of the ideas and tools of practical statistics and their usefulness in problem-solving and decision making. Topics include graphical displays of data, measures of central tendency and variability, sampling distributions, and confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for means and proportions. Additional topics may include elementary probability concepts, correlation, and regression, or Chi-Square analysis. Special emphasis is placed upon the proper use and interpretation of statistics in real life situations.”
- Significance: This course was significant because it laid out the framework for the statistical knowledge that I would need to have for my quantitative methods of psychology course. Specifically, I learned various decision-making processes for statistics such as correlations and regression models which I frequently used for analyzing data during my psychology experiments.
