Chemistry 300: Measurement Statistics

Course Credit: 1 unit
Prerequisite: none

Dr. Chris Stevenson (cstevens@richmond.edu)
Gottwald C-209, 289-8635

Course Description

An introduction to the statistics of measurements on chemical systems. Students in this course will study the characteristics of data that contain random error. Statistics used to describe and summarize trends of measured data will be introduced, as well as a number of statistical tools used to draw meaningful and objective conclusions based on such data.

This course has been designed to teach data analysis for students taking Chemistry 301; this course is a co-requisite, or pre-requisite, of Chemistry 301. However, the course topics are completely general, and are useful to any scientist who deals with quantitative measurements.