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Introduction to Statistics
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- Online course: Internet access required
- Enroll anytime: You have 6 months to complete
- $785 (EDP 857631)
Proctored final exam
Please note: Students looking to fill Haas prerequisites must be in the online course for three months before they can take the final exam.
Dieter Jurkat, M.S., Extension Honored Instructor, works in the actuarial and systems unit of Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies. He has taught statistics and mathematics, from algebra through calculus, at UC Berkeley Extension since 1986.
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- Online course: Internet access required
- Enroll anytime: You have 6 months to complete
- $785 (EDP 887448)
Proctored final exam
G. James Pan, Ph.D., was a faculty member at Oakland University from 1994 to 2001. He currently works as a biostatistician on clinical trials. He has researched, published and taught broadly in the fields of statistics and biostatistics. Pan has been an invited speaker at national and international statistics conferences and departmental and company seminars.
Textbook(s) for this course:
Note: Please use the ISBN listed. Do not purchase a hybrid text; it cannot be used for this course.
Understandable Statistics: Concepts and Methods
Author: Charles Henry Brase and Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Publisher: Brooks/Cole
Edition: 10th
Publication Year: 2011
ISBN: 0840048386
San Francisco, Tues. May 21, 6 pm, 15 meetings
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- 15 meetings
- May 21 to July 30: Tues., 6-10 pm (no meetings June 16, June 18, June 30, July 2, and July 7); also
May 26, June 2, June 9, June 23, July 14, July 21, and July 28: Sun., 9 am-1 pm
- San Francisco: Room 813, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $720 (EDP 405431)
Dieter Jurkat, M.S., Extension Honored Instructor, works in the actuarial and systems unit of Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies. He has taught statistics and mathematics, from algebra through calculus, at UC Berkeley Extension since 1986.
Textbook(s) for this course:
Statistics, 4/e
Author: David Freedman, Robert Pisani, and Roger Purves
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Edition: 4th Edition
Publication Year: 2007
ISBN: 0-393-92972-8
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Statistics, 4/e
Author: David Freedman, Robert Pisani, and Roger Purves
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Edition: 4th Edition
Publication Year: 2007
ISBN: 0-393-92972-8
San Francisco, Wed. May 29, 6:30 pm, 17 meetings
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- 17 meetings
- May 29 to July 24: Wed., 6:30-10 pm (no meeting July 3); also
June 3, June 10, June 17, June 24, July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, and July 29: Mon., 6-10 pm
- San Francisco: Room 811, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $720 (EDP 405399)
Michael Regan Quigley, Ph.D., is director of statistical modeling and data mining for home equity lending at Wells Fargo in San Francisco. He has taught statistics and economics at Northern Illinois University and finance at Aurora University. He has a doctorate in economics and a master's degree in statistics from Northern Illinois University.
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XB2 (4 semester units in Statistics)
XBW2 for online sections
An elective in the Certificate Program in the Essentials of Green Chemistry, in the Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program, in the Advanced Biosciences Program and in the Clinical Laboratory Scientist Preparatory Program
Approved as a prerequisite to the Haas School of Business Evening and Weekend M.B.A. Program. Important: Special academic policies apply to XB and XBW courses.Learn basic concepts of probability and statistical inference, focusing on an intuitive approach to understanding concepts and methodologies. Get an introduction to statistical and critical thinking, including descriptive statistics, probability, sampling distributions, interval estimation, hypothesis testing and regression.
Note: If you want to complete Haas M.B.A. prerequisites, you must be in the online course for three months before you can take the final exam.
Prerequisites: Two years of high school algebra. A recent course in college algebra is recommended.
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