Statistics 100 -- Introduction to Quantitative Methods
Course Description: Introduces the key ideas underlying statistical and quantitative reasoning, including fundamentals of probability. Topics covered: elements of sample surveys, experimental design and observational studies, descriptive and summary statistics for both measured and counted variables, and statistical inference as well as estimation and tests of hypotheses as applied to one- and two-sample problems, regression with one or more predictors, correlation, and analysis of variance. Emphasizes applications in nonexperimental fields including, but notlimited to, economics.

This class is at the Undergraduate level
Instructor: Mark E. Glickman (Boston University) and David P. Harrington (Public Health)

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