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Submitted by jkswanson on Thu, 10/18/2018 - 18:56

I took ResEcon 220 my second semester freshman year to fulfill the statistics requirement for biology majors.  I remember the first thing we learned was how to use excel in the most basic way. The next class was simple review from high school math class about ratios and other basics for statistics.  We then learned basic statistic material such as variables and what it means to have a hypothesis and a null hypothesis. I then remember we started to learn about standard deviation and learned how to calculate it, how it is used, and why it is used.  After we learned all about standard deviation we learned how to use it in excel and how to write formulas to do out the work for us. Pretty early on into the semester we were assigned a group project looking at football statistics. This was my first group project in college so not only did I learn about statistics but also how to work in a group setting and facilitate a 7-8 member team to develop a research paper about football statistics.  This project also taught me about how to write a lab report for a subject other than biology, physics, or chemistry, as those were the only classes I had to write reports for yet. At the time It was my least favorite class but I can honestly say I learned alot from Professor Wayne and his ResEcon 220 class.

 

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