Elementary Biological Statistics I
Statistics · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Fall, Winter and Spring, Every Year
STAT-1501 prerequisites
We couldn't read this course's prerequisites into a chain. The wording is under “Requisite courses” below.
Taking STAT-1501 is a prerequisite for 16 courses directly, and opens 98 once their own follow-ons are counted.
- BIOL-2477Forest Measurement
- BIOL-4111Biology Honours Thesis (Project / Thesis
- BIOL-4471Ecological Methods
- BUS-2819Corporate Finance I
- CCMB-2520Physics of Radiation Therapy
- ECON-2204Introduction to Data Analysis for Economics and Finance
- ECON-2819Corporate Finance I
- ECON-3201Econometrics for Economics and Finance
- ENV-2477Forest Measurement
- ENV-3609Research Methods and Design
- KIN-2256Research Methods in Kinesiology
- MATH-2413Introduction to Mathematical Finance
- and 4 more.
Where STAT-1501 counts
Required by 4 programs:
Counts toward 21 more as one option among several, not as a course you must take:
- BCHM 3-YEAR BSc IN BIOCHEMISTRY
- BCHM 4-YEAR BSc IN BIOCHEMISTRY
- BCHM HONOURS BSc IN BIOCHEMISTRY
- BIOL 3-YEAR BSc IN BIOLOGY
- BIOL 4-YEAR BSc IN BIOLOGY
- BIOL HONOURS BSc IN BIOLOGY
- CHEM 4-YEAR BSc IN CHEMISTRY
- CHEM BSc (HONOURS) IN CHEMISTRY
- ECON 3-YEAR BA IN ECONOMICS
- ECON 4-YEAR BA IN ECONOMICS
- ENV 4-YEAR BSc (CHEMISTRY)
- ENV 4-YEAR BSc (GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS)
- HR 3-YEAR BA IN HUMAN RIGHTS
- HR 4-YEAR BA IN HUMAN RIGHTS
- KIN 4-YEAR BACHELOR OF KINESIOLOGY
- MATH TEACHABLE MINOR IN MATHEMATICS (Senior Years)
- RT 4 YEAR BSc (RADIATION THERAPY)
- STAT 3-YEAR BA/BSc IN STATISTICS
- STAT 4-YEAR BA/BSc IN STATISTICS
- STAT 4-YEAR BA/BSc IN STATISTICS (DATA SCIENCE STREAM)
- STAT MINOR IN STATISTICS
Read from the departments' own calendar pages, where 50 of 208 programs are only partly machine-readable, so treat these as a minimum rather than the full list. Confirm with an academic advisor.
Description
This course provides students in the biological and health sciences with an introduction to data analysis and statistical inference. Topics include: descriptive statistics; probability concepts; Bayes' Theorem; screening tests; discrete probability distributions; uniform and normal distributions; sampling distributions; and statistical inference for one population. Applications are drawn from biology, chemistry and other sciences.
Requisite courses
Pre-Calculus Mathematics 40S or Applied Mathematics 40S [prerequisite(s)].
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and STAT-1301 | STAT-1401.
From the 2026-27 undergraduate calendar. Always verify details on WebAdvisor or with an academic advisor before registering.