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I think what's far more likely is that the curriculum-writers will see it as an opportunity to dumb down the math. They'll make it into a very basic course on study design and data collection, with a handful of descriptive statistics thrown in so the students have something to do with their scientific calculator's STAT mode.

Will they teach discrete and continuous probability distributions? The binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions? Dependent and independent random variables? Bayes' Theorem? Measures of statistical significance and hypothesis testing? Chi-squared and student-t distributions? Confidence intervals and p-values? Maximum likelihood estimation?

Highly doubtful, since many of those topics are built on top of university-level calculus.

parent chongli 2 years ago

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