ECN 205E - Statistics I

Course Objectives

-To learn how to compute probabilities, enabling you to evaluate issues of chance
-To understand to think critically about the statistical claims often encountered in our daily lives
-To learn how to quantify the linear relationship between two variables, and make predictions from one to another

Course Description

The course will present basic concepts from probability theory and statistics. The topics covered are probability and inference: population and sample quantities, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and p-values. We will see examples where statistics is used in real life.