Program Goals & Objectives -- Certificate in Statistics

Student Learning Outcomes

Students completing this certificate will have essential competencies in several areas related to analysis of data: 

  1. Understand probability and statistics in order to quantify uncertainty
     
  2. Build complex models for finding patterns and explaining data
     
  3. Students will be able to orally present their statistical methods or results, or that of others, with the aid of relevant presentation software (PowerPoint, LaTeX) as appropriate.      
     
  4. Students will be able to present statistical methods or results in writing, utilizing the appropriate conventions of the discipline.  This may involve summary and analysis of the statistical methods or results of others, development (including proof) of their own methods, or both.