NR-427

Introductory Statistics for Environmental Applications

This course will introduce the learner to the fundamental concepts of statistics used in natural resource applications. Emphasis will be placed on fundamental terminology, descriptive statistics, basic probability and an introduction to inferential statistics. Actual environmental data will be used to perform basic summary statistics, correlations, linear regressions, and hypothesis tests comparing means and proportions using z-tests, t-tests, ANOVA and goodness-of-fit. An introduction to non-parametric data and tests will also be conducted.

Credit Hours

56

Min. Grade

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