Catalog of Courses

MA117 - Elementary Probability and Statistics

An introduction to the ideas of probability, including counting techniques, random variables and distributions. Elementary parametric statistical tests with examples drawn from the social sciences and life sciences. Not recommended for mathematics majors. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Scientific Investigation of the Natural World requirement. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Quantitative Reasoning requirement. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Scientific Investigation of the Natural World requirement. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Quantitative Reasoning requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: FRL requirement. Meets the Critical Learning: SA requirement.

Prerequisite: No credit after Organismal Biology and Ecology 220 or any other college-level statistics course.

Degree requirement — Critical Learning: FRL, Critical Learning: SA, Critical Perspectives: I, Critical Perspectives: Q

1 unit — Brown, Gordon, Kim, Price, Sancier-Barbosa

Previously Featured Offering

Apr. 2014
Instructor: David Brown
Probability and Statistics is an applicable, real-life introduction to looking at how to analyze a collection of facts, such as values or measurements. Students will learn the difference between qualitative and quantitative and how to examine graphs.
Probability and Statistics
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Probability and Statistics is an introduction to the ideas of probability, including counting techniques, random variables and distributions. Elementary parametric and non-parametric statistical tests will be examined with examples drawn from the social sciences and life sciences.

Offerings

Term Block Title Instructor Location Student Limit/Available Updated
Fall 2024 Block 1 Elementary Probability and Statistics Eddie Price Armstrong Hall 301 25 / 0 07/20/2025
Fall 2024 Block 1 Elementary Probability and Statistics Luis David Garcia Puente Palmer Hall 126 25 / 0 07/20/2025
Fall 2024 Block 2 Elementary Probability and Statistics Luis David Garcia Puente Tutt Science Building 101 25 / 4 07/20/2025
Fall 2024 Block 3 Elementary Probability and Statistics Rob Gordon Tutt Science Building 108 25 / 15 07/20/2025
Spring 2025 Block 5 Elementary Probability and Statistics Eddie Price Armstrong Hall 301 25 / 0 07/20/2025
Spring 2025 Block 7 Elementary Probability and Statistics David Brown Armstrong Hall 301 25 / -2 07/20/2025
Spring 2025 Block 8 Elementary Probability and Statistics David Brown Armstrong Hall 301 25 / -1 07/20/2025
Summer 2025 Block A Elementary Probability and Minho Kim Palmer Hall 126 25 / 10 07/20/2025
Fall 2025 Block 1 Elementary Probability and David Brown TBA 25 / 0 07/20/2025
Fall 2025 Block 1 Elementary Probability and Minho Kim TBA 25 / 12 07/20/2025
Fall 2025 Block 2 Elementary Probability and Statistics Eddie Price TBA 25 / 0 07/20/2025
Fall 2025 Block 3 Elementary Probability and Statistics Flavia Sancier-Barbosa TBA 25 / 8 07/20/2025
Fall 2025 Block 4 Elementary Probability and Statistics Rob Gordon TBA 25 / 5 07/20/2025
Spring 2026 Block 5 Elementary Probability and Minho Kim TBA 25 / 25 07/20/2025
Spring 2026 Block 6 Elementary Probability and Flavia Sancier-Barbosa TBA 25 / 25 07/20/2025
Spring 2026 Block 7 Elementary Probability and Statistics Rob Gordon TBA 25 / 25 07/20/2025
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