Prerequisites / Who This Course is For

This course is designed as a continuation of STAT 113 or 114, and assumes a background in the content of those courses (or an equivalent one) as a prerequisite. Note that the content of introductory statistics at Oberlin recently changed somewhat, and I am sensitive to the fact that not everyone will have taken the most recent version. I expect the main audience of this course to be majors in the natural, social, and computational sciences, who need to be able to create and use statistical models to understand what data can say about interesting questions. Of course, students interested in statistical prediction and inference per se should certainly take this course as well. If you are unsure whether this course is right for you, I am more than happy to talk to you about it!