What accounts for who votes and their choice of candidate? Would
universal health insurance improve the health of the poor? Researchers
and policy makers use statistics to answer these questions. However,
the validity of their conclusions depends upon underlying assumptions
and correct application of statistical methods. The course will
introduce basic principles of statistical inference and programming
skills for data analysis. The goal is to provide students with the
foundation necessary to analyze data in their independent research at
Princeton and to become a critical consumer of news articles and
academic studies that use statistics.
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