MTH 435: Communicating Statistics - spring

Prerequisite: MTH 332 or permission of instructor

Communicating uncertainty, risk and statistical analyses. Topics chosen from: data quality and interpretability; presentation of complex data and findings; Lasswell-type models of communication; understanding audience, feedback; user-centric communication; audience segmentation; simplification and clarity; informed understanding; assessing reliability; avoiding manipulation, pedantry, jargon; use of AI; natural frequencies versus probabilities; explaining uncertainty and risk; aleatory and epistemic uncertainty; graphic, visual, verbal presentation of risk.