Non-calculus statistics credit?

[ZDMaestro]

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My university offers two stats/prob courses -- one is non-calculus and another is an upper division course offered only after completion of Calculus II.

When medical schools mention wanting statistics (either by preference or requirement), which statistics are they referring to (upper or lower)? Just any ol' stat course, or specifically one that follows a calculus path? This course is not named as "intro," though I know that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

Course description covers "stat and quant thinking, experiment design/randomization, descriptive/summary stats, prob models, normal approx., p, correlation/regression, errors and significances."

I did not plan on taking Calculus II. Do you guys and girls think this stats/prob (non-calc) is okay to do?

 

[XmedBarney]

Yes.

 

[Pacna]

I took an algebra-based stat class (200 level) and applied to schools which required stats. Did fine.

 

[ZDMaestro]

Thank you! I had hoped so -- just didn't want to make a mistake and end up wasting my time and money. ^^

 

[Catalystik]

Course description covers "stat and quant thinking, experiment design/randomization, descriptive/summary stats, prob models, normal approx., p, correlation/regression, errors and significances."

I did not plan on taking Calculus II. Do you guys and girls think this stats/prob (non-calc) is okay to do?

I agree that you'll be fine with this non-Calc based Stats class.

 

[NoDakDok]

The only university I am aware of that even requires Calculus for their medical school is the MIT-Harvard MD program. For that reason, they certainly do not require a calculus-based statistics course (nor physics).

 

[aich]

If it means taking an extra unplanned calculus class and your short on time, I would take the algebra based one. Otherwise, take calculus based stats, physics, etc. as you'll learn the why and not just crank out number from a black box. I loved my stats class, we covered a lot of interesting topics like Bayesian stats (needed to really understand the probabilistic nature of diagnostic tests), transforming from one probability distribution to another, and making random number generators, etc. If you don't care about the why, then don't even bother because it is more work and med schools don't really care.

$0.02

 

[ZDMaestro]

Thanks everyone! I really appreciate it! It's all very comforting and assuring. 😀

@aich -- You mean "$2.00" (inflation).