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Course Info for NESC - 220 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 3219 Title: Statistics for Life Sciences Department: Neuroscience
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 19 Available seats: 0
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 8:00AM-9:15AM, CCAN - 121 Instructor(s): Ruskin, David
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Numerical & Symbolic Reasoning Requirement
Course Description:
This rigorous course is geared towards life science students and emphasizes applied statistical concepts, such as using simple experimental design, data collection and analysis, and presentation of results. Students will also gain knowledge of R computing software. The topics covered include probability, descriptive statistical methods (such as measures of central tendency and variance), and graphical presentations, all calculated using R. Elementary probability, inferential statistics and statistical tests are reviewed (estimation, hypothesis testing, sample size, power).