Why do we need statistics?

Objective

To introduce students to the class and field of statistics

Background reading

Course notes links for background reading also contain code used to produce R output used in slides.

• https://jsgosnell.github.io/cuny_biostats_book/content/getting_started/getting_started.html

• https://jsgosnell.github.io/cuny_biostats_book/content/chapters/Introduction.html

Lecture slides (click to open in Google slides!)

Extra material