I took Resource Economics Statistics 212 in the Spring of 2016 with Professor Wayne. The class was structured as a TBL and most of the work was done in groups. The class taught basic statistical principles as well as how to use Microsoft excel to apply those principles and was focused in social science and business-related fields. The key concepts taught were probability theory, hypothesis testing and normal distribution analysis. This including chi square analysis and when to accept or reject a null hypothesis as well as t and z tables. I was able to apply some of those concepts in my Genetics class this past fall. The excel portion of the course was useful in actually constructing relevant tables and figures using large amounts of data. Overall, what I took away from the course was that statistics can often be misleading when not analyzed and applied properly.
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