Quantitative Thinking has been adopted as a graduate requirement,
to start with the class of 2011 (entering fall, 2007).
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| This program is interdisciplinary, involving
courses that include statistics, economics, political science,geography
and journalism. The goal of this graduation requirement is
to enable students to
- Describe the world quantitatively,
- Evaluating sources and quality of data.
- Distinguish between association and causation,
- Understand and deal with trade-offs,
- Understand and deal with uncertainty and risk, and
- Be able to handle estimation, modeling, and scale.
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Project Director: David
Bressoud
Associate Director: Daniel
Kaplan |
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