STAT 200Elementary Statistics

4 credits · Statistics · Penn State

Descriptive statistics, frequency distributions, probability, binomial and normal distributions, statistical inference, linear regression, and correlation. STAT 200 is a standard first course in statistics. Student who have successfully completed this course will understand basic concepts of probability and statistical inference, including common graphical and numerical data summaries; notions of sampling from a population of interest, including the sampling distribution of a statistic; construction and interpretation of confidence intervals, test statistics, and p-values; and connections between probabilistic concepts like the normal distribution and statistical inference. They will recognize various types of data, appropriate statistical methods to analyze them, and assumptions that underlie these methods, They will also gain extensive experience in the use of statistical software to analyze data and the interpretation the output of this software.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “Placement into MATH 21 or higher”

Counts toward

General education

Quantification (GQ)

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 2 · Fall (78 programs).

Required in (45)

Administration of Justice, B.A.
Administration of Justice, B.S.
Advertising/Public Relations, B.A.
African and African American Studies, B.S.
Anthropological Science, B.S.
Anthropology, B.A.
Community, Environment, and Development, B.S.
Criminal Justice, A.S. (Altoona)
Criminal Justice, A.S. (Capital)
Criminal Justice, A.S. (University College)
Criminal Justice, B.A. (Abington)
Criminal Justice, B.A. (Altoona)
and 33 more

One of the options in (152)

Accounting, B.S. (Abington)
Accounting, B.S. (Altoona)
Accounting, B.S. (Behrend)
Accounting, B.S. (Berks)
Accounting, B.S. (Business)
Accounting, B.S. (Capital)
Actuarial Science, B.S.
Agribusiness Management, B.S.
Agricultural and Biorenewable Systems Management, B.S.
Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications, B.S. (Capital)
Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications, B.S. (Information Sciences and Technology)
Biobehavioral Health, B.S. (Behrend)
and 140 more

What it opens up

Courses that list STAT 200 as a prerequisite (94)

A-I 370 Problem Formulation and Automated Problem Solving
ABSM 424 Precision Agriculture Technology
ACCTG 404 Managerial Accounting: Economic Perspective
AGBM 106 Agribusiness Problem Solving
AGBM 320 Markets and Prices: Analysis and Forecasting
ANSC 456 Animal Microbiomes
BA 302 Supply Chains
BA 321 Contemporary Skills for Business Professionals
BA 322 Negotiation Skills for Business Professionals
BA 499 Foreign Study--Business Administration
BBH 310 Research Strategies for Studying Biobehavioral Health
BBH 310H Research Strategies for Studying Biobehavioral Health
BBH 410 Developmental and Health Genetics
BBH 411W Research and Applications in Biobehavioral Health
BBH 440 Principles of Epidemiology
BBH 471 Clinical Research Practice
BBH 477 Sleep and Biobehavioral Health
BIOL 403 Biological Writing and Communication for Research
BIOL 428 Population Genetics
BMB 485 Human Genomics and Biomedical Informatics
CED 404 Community, Environment and Development Research Methods
COMM 420 Research Methods in Advertising and Public Relations
COMM 428D Research & Analytics
CYBER 362 Cybersecurity Analytics Studio
DA 201W Descriptive Analytics
DS 300 Privacy and Security for Data Sciences
DS 330 Visual Analytics for Data Sciences
EBF 401 Strategic Corporate Finance for the Earth, Energy, and Materials Industries
EBF 473 Risk Management in Energy Industries
EBF 483 Introduction to Electricity Markets
ECON 402 Decision Making and Strategy in Economics
ECON 481 Business Forecasting Techniques
ECON 485 Econometric Techniques
EDPSY 450 Principles of Measurement
EE 460 Communication Systems II
ERM 412 Resource Systems Analysis
FDSC 403 Sensory Data Collection & Analysis
FIN 301 Corporation Finance
FIN 301H Corporation Finance (Honors)
FIN 302 Introductory Financial Modeling
FIN 455 Quantitative Analysis for Business
FIN 465 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Finance
FIN 477 Behavioral Finance
FOR 266 Forest Resources Measurements
FOR 350 Forest Ecosystem Monitoring and Data Analysis
FRNSC 410 A Scientific Approach to Crime Scene Investigation
FRNSC 411 Criminalistics: Trace and Impression Evidence
FRNSC 412 Laboratory in Criminalistics: Trace and Impression Evidence
HDFS 312W Empirical Inquiry in Human Development
HDFS 445 Development Throughout Adulthood
HHD 410 Clinical Research Practice
HM 494H Senior Honors Thesis
HPA 440 Principles of Epidemiology
HPA 446 Economics and Health In Low- and Middle-Income Countries
HPA 472 Advanced Data Analysis in Health Administration
KINES 461W Preparation for Research Project
KINES 491W Research Proposal
MATH 448 Mathematics of Finance
MIS 301 Business Analytics
MIS 345 Introduction to Data Analytics
MIS 417 Programming for Data Analytics
MKTG 342 Marketing Research
PSYCH 301M Honors Research Methods in Psychology
PSYCH 301W Basic Research Methods in Psychology
PSYCH 404 Principles of Measurement
PSYCH 407 Advanced Research Methods in Psychology
PSYCH 408 Program Evaluation
PSYCH 416 Development Throughout Adulthood
PSYCH 444 Engineering Psychology
PSYCH 455 Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYCH 482 Selection and Assessment in Organizations
PSYCH 484 Work Attitudes and Motivation
RM 301 Risk and Decisions
RM 320W Risk Management and Insurance
RM 475 Quantitative Analysis for Business
SCM 301 Supply Chain Management
SCM 301H Supply Chain Management - Honors
SRA 231 Decision Theory and Analysis
SRA 365 Statistics for Security and Risk Analysis
STAT 300 Statistical Modeling I
STAT 380 Data Science Through Statistical Reasoning and Computation
STAT 440 Computational Statistics
STAT 460 Intermediate Applied Statistics
STAT 461 Analysis of Variance
STAT 462 Applied Regression Analysis
STAT 464 Applied Nonparametric Statistics
STAT 466 Survey Sampling
SUR 341 Adjustment Computations
SUR 441 Data Analysis and Project Design
VBSC 444 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
VBSC 445 Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
VBSC 485 Human Genomics and Biomedical Informatics
WFS 340 Statistics for Conservation of Wild Populations
WFS 446 Wildlife and Fisheries Population Dynamics