<p>1) I can't find a Math Major forum (?), so I'll just post this thread here. (I'm a business major)</p>
<p>I'm planning on taking a beginning stat class this upcoming fall semester. I have no stat. experience, but I've been doing okay in my previous math classes.</p>
<p>So far, I took Pre-Calculus and Calculus 1 and I got A in both classes and I thought they were pretty easy for me.</p>
<p>I enjoy taking math classes, but I wouldn't say I'm good at it.</p>
<p>Some people say stat is hard, some not.. so I would like to hear from College Confidential people.</p>
<p>Is it freshman level or calc based? If you got an easy A in calculus then freshman stats should be insanely easy for you. I haven’t taken calc based stats yet.</p>
<p>I am taking a similar class now, if you handled calculus well then you will not have any trouble with an intro to stats class. If anything you will think it is moving painfully slow.</p>
<p>Immotion12// It’s an intro to stats class. I wouldn’t say I got an easy A, but the class itself felt pretty easy. I didn’t study hard enough to get an easy A, but still got A in the class.</p>
<p>This is probably just an outlier, but I had an awful experience with statistics. I took a social sciences (economics) intro statistics course that was completely brutal. I have taken calculus 1, calculus 2, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and a bridge course (advanced math) and eeked out with a C+ during my freshman year. I was the only frosh in the course and the professor was insane. He considered B-'s and C+'s to be “good grades,” so I guess that might have had something to do with it.</p>
<p>I actually found stats to be really easy. I passed it with a B while I struggled like hell with Intermediate Algebra. I’m sure if you could do Calculus, you should have no problem with stats. It is quite possibly the easiest and most useful Math Class you’ll ever take, which could make it easier because it seems like you can apply it to a lot more than you can other math classes. That made it easier for me.</p>
<p>Yea, intro to stats is very easy. At first the concepts might seem a little strange, and I personally found the last half of the course to be many times easier than the latter just because you have to get used to thinking in stats mode. But nonetheless a pretty easy class.</p>
<p>The only reason I didn’t get an A is because the class homework and projects had us using minitab (stats software) to solve statistics problems and I loved using it as it made data analysis very simple and easy. However, when we took the tests I only had my calculator and I was kind of an idiot (and very, very busy) and didn’t take the time to learn how to input stats problems into a scientific calculator. So I’d spend the vast majority of my time taking tests trying to figure out how to input data in the right fashion into my calculator, and if I couldn’t figure out I would have to do all the calculation manually (which is easy but painstakingly slow). </p>
<p>The point is, make sure that if your tests only allow the use of a calculator, do all your homework problems using the calculator, even though a stats software program might be 10 times easier.</p>