Statistics Course

[Chunkle]

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Will any of these be helpful in the future? If not, I'd rather take a lower division stat class for study credit since I passed the stupid AP Stats test.

moment generating functions; law of large numbers and central limit theorems. random variables; combinatorial probability; discrete and continuous distributions; joint distributions, expected values

It's a calculus based stats class with stochastic processes. Has anyone taken a course similar to this one? If so, how hard is it.

 

[vivalavie]

Will any of these be helpful in the future? If not, I'd rather take a lower division stat class for study credit since I passed the stupid AP Stats test.

moment generating functions; law of large numbers and central limit theorems. random variables; combinatorial probability; discrete and continuous distributions; joint distributions, expected values

It's a calculus based stats class with stochastic processes. Has anyone taken a course similar to this one? If so, how hard is it.

You will never, ever need to know calculus based probability. If you already took a probability course and you need another math class I'd just go with straight calculus or diff eq or something. Probability, while arguably more useful for medicine, is much, much more boring, and as long as you understand z-scores and what a p value is... you're fine.

 

[Lil Mick]

Unless you're going into methods-heavy research (quantitative genetics, statistics, mathematics...), it probably won't be any more useful than regular statistics (albeit, much harder--my school requires real analysis and calc III for that course). Calc might be a better bet if you want to fulfill math requirements, as some schools require calculus.

 

[okal]

moment generating functions; law of large numbers and central limit theorems. random variables; combinatorial probability; discrete and continuous distributions; joint distributions, expected values

my school requires real analysis and calc III for that course

There is absolutely nothing mentioned in there that would require real analysis. Calc III may be required depending how your school breaks up it's calculus sequence.

I think Probability will serve you better in the world than Diff.Eq will. Both will open up new worlds of understanding for you. Probability would help you better understand how society functions and Diff.Eq will better help you understand how nature changes. I've taken both and many others (Math major) and if I had to choose I would definitely pick Probability as a math credit over Diff.Eq.

Also, if they include Markov chains in Probability you'll almost never lose in Risk again.

 

[Chunkle]

I forgot to mention, but I already took Diffeq, Lin Alg. It's between the statistics course and vector calculus, which I have no idea what it is.

Oh and a little off-topic, but do med schools require to take basic calculus in my undergrad? I received a 5 on BC AP, so placed out of both derivatives and integration.

Thanks for the replies.