"Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine." —Peter Sondergaard.
This course covers basic concepts in statistics including statistical vocabulary, data collection, data summary and graphical display. Data analytics including statistical methods are essential to business, medical and health sciences, artificial intelligence, fraud detection, forensics, the sciences, social sciences, and even the arts. A knowledge of basic statistics is needed for most areas of university study, and is considered essential job training in many careers. In this course you will learn basic statistical methods to collect, manage, summarize, visualize and learn from data. Students should come away from the course understanding basic statistical terms and concepts, able to perform some analyses on the computer, and feel prepared for a college-level course in statistics. Students will be introduced to statistical computing using the R package. Students should come away from the course understanding statistical terms and able to do some basic analyses on the computer.