EHS 2550 - Basic Statistics for Health Sciences

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Statistics is the art and science of decision making in the presence of uncertainty. EHS 2550 is an introductory course that assumes no prior knowledge of statistics but does assume some knowledge of high school algebra. The course is designed to introduce students to some of the statistical methods available for the analysis and interpretation of data relevant to environmental health, bio-statistics, natural, physical and socio-behavioral sciences, and health sciences. Successful completion of college level algebra is encouraged. Satisfies the university general education requirement in the formal reasoning knowledge foundation area.