Statistics

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Statistics is the science---and art---of extracting data from the world around us and organising, summarising and anlysing it in order to draw conclusions or make predictions. We use David S. Moore's The Basic Practice of Statistics (4th ed.) (BPS). The core of the course follows Chapters 1 to 12, Chapters 14 to 19, and Chapters 22 to 25 (with a few omissions to be announced as we proceed). Topics include: probability theory, collecting and describing data, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, and analysis of variance. In addition to this core, we pursue a small number of other topics depending on the interests of the class. Options include more probability theory, a wider array of statistical tests, and more experience with "real world" applications. Two themes running through the course are the use of statistics in the natural and social sciences and the use (and abuse) of statistics by the news media.
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