STSCI 2000

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STSCI 2000
Essential Statistics and Data Science

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course will cover essential tools for data collection and analysis in the modern age of big data. Students will learn foundational topics in statistics, including the notions of sampling, data summarization and visualization, and statistical inference. Students will also learn basics of R programming required for exploratory data analysis. In addition, modern techniques for simulation based statistical inference will be covered to complement classical statistical inference.


Enrollment Priority Enrollment limited to: Ed Equity students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2025SP

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify appropriate summarization, visualization and uncertainty quantification techniques for analyzing tabular data
  • Conduct descriptive and inferential statistical analysis using R
  • Interpret and communicate results of descriptive and inferential statistical analysis

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Syllabi: none

  •   Six Week Summer. 

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  1211 STSCI 2000   LEC 001

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    • F
    • Jun 22 - Aug 4, 2026

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  • Instruction Mode: Online

    Course fee: $10 for Posit Cloud subscription.
    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/.
    Enrollment open to: Precollege Studies Online program students. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/precollege/program/online.