Statistics (STAT)
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
STAT 2507 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Statistical Modeling I
A data-driven introduction to statistics. Basic descriptive statistics, introduction to probability theory, random variables, various discrete and continuous distributions, contingency tables and goodness-of-fit, sampling distributions, distribution of sample mean, Central Limit Theorem, application to interval estimation and hypothesis testing. A statistical software package will be used.
Precludes additional credit for
BIT 2000,
BIT 2100,
ECON 2200,
ECON 2201,
GEOG 2006,
STAT 2606,
STAT 3502.
Prerequisite: an Ontario Grade 12 university-preparation Mathematics (after Summer 2002) or an OAC in Mathematics or equivalent, or permission of the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory one hour a week.