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Statistics vs calculus8/14/2023 ![]() We're just concerned whether Statistics vs. DD is a strong humanities and English student (good GPA because of her non-STEM classes with Math being the lowest and anomalous grade) so she will be targeting top 25 schools and UMich, UVA, and maybe UCLA. ![]() You can literally find 20 or more classes in statistics all involving actually USING statistics (and programming in R, SAS, Stata, etc.) where not one single lesson from calculus is used.Īnonymous wrote:OP here. I minored in statistics at the PhD level at Cornell, classes such as applied statistics, advanced experimental design, non-parametric analysis, etc. You can take basic stats classes without calc, yes. You can also take stats at the undergrad,masters, and phd level without a calc background. She is not looking at engineering school etc. You can take HS stats without a calc background and that's what the DC should do. It's about whether her DC who is not interested in math should take stats in HS in place of calc because the DC is not into math. The OP's question isn't about taking stats in college. If she was going into Engineering it would be a problem but otherwise I would do it.įor many, it will sink in better by learning the basis for stats first (calculus) and then taking more advanced (calc-based) stats in college. ![]() Anonymous wrote:Stats is a very useful class.more useful to many than calc.
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