MA218

Download as PDF

Analysis of Environmental Data

Course Subject Code

MA

Course Number

218

Course Long Title

Analysis of Environmental Data

Status

Active

Division

Natural Sciences

Unit(s)

1

Schedule Type

Block Seminar

Instruction Mode

Traditional

Grade Modes

Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit

Course Attributes

CPI, CPQ

Course Description

This course will focus on the fundamentals of exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, and experimental design in the ecological, environmental, and the earth sciences. Topics will include theory and practice of project design, data distribution and description, the central limit theorem, characterization of uncertainty, correlation, univariate hypothesis testing, and multivariate analyses (ANOVA, linear regression). Students will complete a final project using environmental data collected in the field and analyzed using statistical computer software.

Required Requisites

MA 126 or 125 or 127 or HS equivalent (Calculus I)