This course covers material that is required as prerequisite knowledge for many of the advanced courses offered by ASH in their APSTA sequence. Concepts covered include the following: advanced algebra, pre-calculus, basic matrix algebra, and basics in calculus (derivatives and integrals); probability of events, simple probability rules, common probability distributions, expectations; exploratory statistics, correlations, law of large numbers, t-tests, and regression; basic coding in R,
RMarkdown conventions, loops, functions, and simple statistical operations.