STAT101 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE I
| Course Code: | 2460101 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 4 (3.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Statistics |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AYŞEN AKKAYA |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course will be instrumental in preparing the freshmen students for the more advanced courses tough throughout their higher education; describing the fundamentals of statistics and data science; representing different data types and interpreting the data with descriptive statistics.
Course Content
Understand the fundamentals of statistics and data science, understanding the difference between a population and a sample in a given dataset. Basic statistical definitions and learn how to work with different sorts of data. How to visualize different data types. Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency, asymmetry, variability, correlation and covariance. What are the random variables in a dataset? Distinguish and work with different distributions that describe distinct data sources.
Course Learning Outcomes
This is a beginning course for the statistics students. The aim of this course is to build the fundamentals of data science with the help of basic statistical definitions and descriptive data analyses. Hereby, the course is intended to provide tools for a conceptual understanding of statistics and data science. Introduction to random variables concept with some known statistical distributions and their properties are included for a sound to understand distinct data types. Students are motivated to use computer and statistical programming language in the analyses of data.