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My Name is Mamadou Bah, and my major is electrical engineering. Electrical engineering is a major that I am attach to because it is fundamental to our today’s survival. we cannot live without electricity, so i am passionate to know it better. throughout my studies, I have learned that i cannot be an engineer without being a good mathematician. therefore, I have take multiple required math classes. and this semester I am taking statistics and probability because it is required. This class is really important in electrical engineering because most of the classes require graphs to show real explanations of data and analysis. In  circuit analysis, we need graphs of Voltages Versus currents, Currents Vs. resistances, voltage vs. Periods, and ect… we use scatter plots to show how data are distributed in a graph and this is taught in statistics. thus this is really important for my major, so i am will to learn more about it.

Hello everyone, my name Christopher Mena. I am currently a full-time student at the New York City College of Technology majoring in Computer Science. Computer Science has always been my passion, but not my first choice. I decided to start Computer Engineering, after many ups and let down, I decided that I would only pursue something that would truly make me happy. I am a very friendly person, who loves going on hiking and explore nature. I love animals and I’m always excited to meet new species. I am very good at swimming and like very much the cold weather. While all of these sound amazing, I am extremely shy at occasions, but once I’m used to an environment, you’ll see the best of me. Statistics is a fundamental area not only for my career but also to the specialization I’m aiming for, which is AI and Data Science. Data Science and AI are both disciplinary fields that uses scientific methods to analyze large amounts of data in various forms that can be either structured or unstructured. With large amount of data is possible to train an AI to take critical decisions that would otherwise be too complex for humans being to analyze all at once. Statistics would play an incredible role is the development of such algorithms capable of dissecting large amount of data and transforming into coherent for both humans and computers to work with.

Hello my name is madhabi shill. I am a transfer student from BMCC. My major is Biomedical Informatics. I have choose this major to peruse my career in the medical field. Biomedical informatics applies to the interdisciplinary field seeking to study and the advance use of biomedical data. It also involve scientific study and outlining the best path to improve human health by using the data. Statics and probability is very essential for biomedical informatics fields and they both overlap each other analyzing the data in the areas of biology, public health and medicine.

Hello, my name is Kayla Lewis and I am a sophomore and a full time student at the New York City College of Technology. I want to obtain my associate’s degree in two years and in order to do so I need to take this class, that’s why this course is so important to me. My major is Liberal Arts & Sciences. I’m not sure about what field I want to study in but, I know that learning statistics will only provide me with more opportunities for my future professional career. As for me personally, I love traveling to different countries and states, being around animals, trying new food places, and hanging out with my friends.

Hello, I am Nadia Gordon. I am a transfer student at City Tech, my major is Biomedical Informatics. Which is the study of informatics on a  cellular and molecular level, but it mostly focus on genomes. It mostly applies to human health. I chose Biomedical Informatics as my major because I really want to be a vet, there are certain protein animals have that a human body does not. Statistic with probability plays into my major because in science we use statistical tests to determine if what we are researching applies to the population and help make prediction about the population.

In a restaurant, waiting for food

My name is Shaad H. Choudhury. I was born in Bangladesh. When I was 14, I moved to New York with my parents and my younger sister. After my high school graduation, I went to California for college where I studied a year in Computer Science. This year, I came back to New York and decided to continue studying at NYCCT. I chose this major because I want to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. As we develop more technology, criminals use this technology to steal information and hurt people. This is where I got my motivation to focus in Cyber-Security. Statistics is very important for this major, especially for data mining and machine learning. Statistical methods are used to randomize algorithms in Computer Science. To develop and understand an algorithm, knowledge of Statistics is important.

The graph in the header is an example of a scatter plot, an important way to display how to 2 variables are related to each other. We will soon know how to find the slope and y-intercept of the regression or trend line which is displayed.

Over the course of the semester, I hope you develop a sense of data and an appropriate set of tools to analyze and display a data set. These skills form part of what is called “descriptive statistics”. Other notions to develop are hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, part of “inferential statistics”. From probability, you will develop a sense of distribution and characteristics that distributions have.

Your first openlab lab assignment is to introduce yourself and perhaps provide a picture with you a part of it. Be sure to check the “introduction” category on the right and uncheck the “uncategorized”.

As I have mentioned in class, statistics is not really part of math. It should be thought of as a discipline all itself. It does heavily depend on a branch of math called “probability”. By way of analogy, physics is not a subfield of math, even though it too depends heavily on a branch of math, namely calculus.

My background is not statistics, but math. In particular, my specialty is combinatorics, which is part of “discrete” math, one of the 2 umbrella branches of math (the other being “continuous”). Combinatorics is sometimes known as the art of counting. When we study probability, we will be engaging with a small portion of combinatorics, in particular “combinations” and “permutations”.

As for hobbies, I like outdoor activities such as gardening, hiking, biking, swimming and cross-country (Nordic) skiing. I ride my bike from where I live in Harlem to work (usually just one direction) each day. I sing each evening of the week and also on weekends with different choirs, ranging from Sacred Renaissance, Baroque and early American to eastern European folk (Georgian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian). In the summers, I typically play a mellophone in the Bread and Puppet Band in Glover, Vermont.

Photo of me with a couple of my aunts with the grand canyon in the background.

A statistical question would be if you are doing a photo like this, what is your chance of falling off the cliff. I am guessing it is pretty slim, perhaps 1 in a million. However, if you are doing a selfie, then the chance probably increases by a magnitude to perhaps 1 in hundred thousand. In fact,  New York State has recently taken measures at the Kaaterskill Falls, as a result of multiple deaths occurring while people were taking selfies.