This course aims at introducing the ideas of statistical reasoning and understanding the characteristics of data. Students will learn to draw scientific conclusions through hypothesis testing, identify the properties of various statistical studies, and summarize data through scatter plot and contingency table. Through group discussions and computer lab demonstrations, students will learn to assess the reliability of statistical studies appeared in the newspaper articles, and identify possible issues when visualizing the data.

本課程旨在介紹統計推理的想法和理解數據的特徵。學生將學習透過假設檢驗作出科學結論，識別各種統計研究的屬性，並通過散點圖和列聯表去概述數據。通過小組討論和實驗室演示，學生將學習如何評估報紙文章中出現的統計研究的可靠性，並識別出數據圖像可能出現的問題。