SI 544: Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis

This course teaches the fundamentals of statistics, that is, the ability to describe data samples and draw inferences about the populations from which they were drawn. It should also sharpen individual intuition about how to read data, interpret data, and judge others' claims about data.

• characterize population data intuitively for themselves and others;
• draw conclusions and inferences from population data;
• check assumptions of others' claims and debug their putative "facts";
• look for correlations while controlling for confounding effects.