Welcome!

Welcome to Introduction to Statistics!

We begin with a short section to prepare you for learning online. For some of you, this material may be part of a hybrid learning experience in which you also meet face-to-face with an instructor. Some of you may be taking this course solely online, with interaction taking place in an asynchronous (not live) format.  We discuss learning strategies for these different types of learning environments and give you some pointers for using this material to support your learning.

We then discuss what statistics is all about—the “Big Picture” of statistics—and look at how the four steps in the Big Picture connect to the chapters in the course.