Introduction to Probability and Statistics Introduction to Probability and Statistics is an applied statistics course.
Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing, and interpreting data.
This class will prepare you to examine data produced by others and to organize and summarize your own data. These summaries can be graphical, numerical, or in the form of a mathematical model that gives a compact description of the overall pattern of the data. Since statistical inference uses probability to describe how reliable its conclusions are, some basic facts about probability will also be included in the course. The practice of statistics involves the use of many formulas for numerical calculation. The class relies on computers to do many of the more complex or tedious calculations.