INQ-240 | Statistics and Botany

Full Title: Statistics and Botany

Topic Description:

How does probability theory help us understand the survival and proliferation of plants? How can we use statistical inference to grow better crops? The first component of the course will be an investigation of how plants grow, reproduce, and survive. The goal of this component is to establish a link between the natural world and probability theory. The second component will be to report and describe experimental data using statistics. As a class we will run multiple botanical experiments in order to understand the fundamental roll statistics plays in communicating scientific findings. We will also investigate additional data collected by botanists and discuss how this statistical analysis of this data can be applied to agricultural applications and explain the behavior of plants.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2009