Statistics is the science and art of understanding and analyzing data.
Since sound decisions are based on information, data, estimates, predictions, etc, it is clear that statistical skills can be useful. It is the goal of this course to introduce you to the elements of descriptive and inferencial statistics for the purpose of T extbook Exploring Statistics , 2nd edition. Incompletes Incompletes will be given according to University and Departmental Policy only. In addition to using e-mail to communicate with each other, you will also be using a statistical software package called Minitab to calculate statistics. You will be able to use Minitab on Piglet, or if you prefer, you can use the Mac or Windows version.