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STAT 211Introductory Statistics and Sampling for Accounting

Units
0.50
Faculty
Mathematics
Subject
Statistics

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Descriptive statistics, probability, discrete and continuous random variables. Sampling distributions and simple hypothesis testing. Introduction to survey sampling.

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43% liked it49% easy57% useful

From 99 ratings and 19 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • This course is just terribly structured in the year of 2014 Winter. The material we learned was unnecessarily hard. Most afm students average dropped because of this stupid course. And many had to repeat the course through an online course at the University of Athabasca.

    Sep 2014 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Hadn't taken Data Management in high school or any other Stat course so this was definitely a lot of work, but this course is useful if you want to go the finance route. The problems assigned for homework were much easier compared to the midterm and especially the final. You have to keep pace with the course and utilize the prof's office hours to do well.

    May 2022 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Helps a little if you've taken Gr.12 Data Management. Otherwise, you need to do your work. Going to classes and tutorials highly recommended. Quizzes were okay, but there were ridiculous time constraints which was quite unfair and made it hard for a lot of students. Final was quite difficult as well.

    May 2016 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Quite difficult if you've never taken stats/data management in high school. Tough quizzes with 35 minute time allowed which is ridiculous. Difficult final.

    Apr 2016 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • If you haven't taken AP Stat or even just Data Management from high school, you will have to do some work in this course. But for those who have taken AP Stat, you will find this a bird course.

    Mar 2016 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

77 posts and comments in 54 threads mention STAT 211, December 2011 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2024

Spring 2024

Waterloo AFM 5 points, 5 comments

“Does anyone know how math based AFM is? I checked the program courses but there’s no math courses.”

u/richard--b: “… if you like 323 and want to continue the content you can look into taking econometrics from the econ department stat 211 was 50% grade 12 data management, 50% new stuff but not very hard new stuff, although now that’s been replaced by afm 113 which somehow has calc 2 and …”

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Spring 2023

AFM y1 textbooks/course material 3 points, 4 comments

u/Bobcat_77_: “Does anyone know what textbooks are used in AFM 101, 111, 112, 132, 102, 121 and ECON 101, STAT 211, and SPCOM 111, or have downloaded course material from any of these courses?”

u/alexo1119alex: “… STATS 211 - no idea. I took AFM 113 which might've been similar. For me in 113 I just needed tophat and the textbook was a free pdf from the prof. EDIT: Just realized you did say you are first year AFM, then you can be confident everything I just said will probably apply to you. …”

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Winter 2022

How to I check my final exam? 3 points, 10 comments

“I’m pretty sure I fucked up my AFM final, I couldn’t even get my debit and credit balance, but I some how got a 92 (55% final, other 45% I got around 80% average) In the end so I wanna check how did …”

u/Ok-Cricket7665: “stat 211/afm 113? there was a 30% curve”

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AFM 113 0 points, 3 comments

“Can someone help me understand how to solve for P(AUB) P(A∩B) and P(AlB) using product rule, partition rule and bayes theorem? …”

u/afmstudentity: “Try searching for STAT 211. That was the former stats course in 1B for AFM students before the switch to the new curriculum”

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Fall 2021

Spring 2021

Do AFM Students Have to Take STAT 211? 0 points, 3 comments

u/334922: “looking on this degree requirements UW website it says nothing about AFM students having to take intro to stats but I've heard from other students that STAT 211 is in the 1B term. can someone clarify what's going on with this course? is it no longer a requirement this year?”

u/BlackGhost7373: “saf changed stat211 into afm113, it’s the same thing with more R though”

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Winter 2021

note taking in AFM 1 point, 13 comments

“I'm considering to purchase an iPad for note taking purposes, will that be a wise decision? how many note taking/math based classes are there in AFM that will maximize the usage of the iPad?”

u/NectarineImpressive5: “Fucking zero lmao stats 211 and that's it. Afm has zero math”

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Fall 2020

Internal transfer to faculty of math 5 points, 14 comments

“How common is it for students to internally transfer into the faculty of math? Is it almost impossible to transfer? I’m in my 1A life science going to attempt to transfer for next fall. …”

u/poopmeister993: “I recently transferred to math from the science faculty (was in physics) transferring depends on your grades. …”

u/poopmeister993: “… btw read this page: We advise against taking some courses, such as MATH 103, MATH 104, MATH 109, CS 100, STAT 202, STAT 211, and STAT 220, as they will not help you toward a transfer into Math.”

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