Learning goals for the major
We expect all our majors to be able to recognize basic situations relative to analysis in the areas covered by our program. We expect all our majors to be able to critically discuss the appropriateness of a wide variety of fundamental statistical methodology used in published articles, reports, etc. They should be able to interpret the meaning of the results. They should understand the theoretical criteria used in the development of statistical procedures. They should all be able to use the SAS statistical computer packages to do basic data analysis.