INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR LIBERAL ARTS

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INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR LIBERAL ARTS

Lecturer(s)	BANA, GERGELY I.
Credit(s)	2
Academic Year/Semester	2025 Fall
Day/Period	Fri.2
Campus	Mita
Class Format	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
Registration Number	19696
Faculty/Graduate School	INTERNATIONAL CENTER
Year Level	2, 3, 4
Grade Type	This item will appear when you log in (Keio ID required).
Course Description	A course to aim to teach liberal arts students to understand the basic notions of probability theory and statistics, and to be able to comprehend the meaning of an elementary statistical analysis.
K-Number	CIN-CO-00413-212-12

Course Administrator	Faculty/Graduate School	CIN	INTERNATIONAL CENTER
Course Administrator	Department/Major	CO
Main Course Number	Level	0	Faculty-wide
	Major Classification	0	Other Course
	Minor Classification	41	International Center Course (Other) - Statistics
	Subject Type	3	Elective subject
Supplemental Course Information	Class Classification	2	Lecture
	Class Format	1	Face-to-face classes (conducted mainly in-person)
	Language of Instruction	2	English
Academic Discipline		12	Analysis, applied mathematics, and related fields

Course Contents/Objectives/Teaching Method/Intended Learning Outcome

The aim of this course is to teach liberal arts students to understand the basic notions of probability theory and statistics, and to be able to comprehend the meaning of an elementary statistical analysis. While some mathematics is unavoidable to handle probabilities and statistics, our target is not to be able to carry out computations, rather to be able to comprehend simple analyses concerning randomness, subjective and objective probabilities, parameter estimation, confidence. After a short introduction of elementary probability theory, the most important discrete and continuous distributions, the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem, we discuss the basics of statistics, parameter estimation, confidence, and Bayesian statistics.