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:: About
:: Mission
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FACULTY
:: Faculty Profiles
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:: Graduate
:: Undergraduate
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:: Student Contacts
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:: Course Overviews
:: Course Related Items
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:: Graduate
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Department of Statistics Faculty
Data, Models, and Reality: An Introduction to the Scientific Method STAT 100
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Course Description:
The formation of models of reality and the ways models are tested by their analysis in the light of data are considered. We cover a variety of examples from antiquity to the present time.