This course gives students an introduction from the basics to mid-level statistics and applications in running analyses through manual means plus Excel, with interpretation through practical cases and examples. By the end of the course, students will have mastered descriptive and summary statistics, probablity axioms, discrete univariate probability distributions, continuous univariate distributions, regression, means, variance, covariance, sampling distributions, central limit theorems, point v, interval estimations, one-, two-, multi-sample hypothesis tests; and:
- know the principles and elements of basic statistics;
- summarise data sets into meaningful information;
- perform appropriate statistical procedures and write sound interpretations for use in practical decision-making.
