3470:250 Statistics for Everyday Life, 4 credits

Offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite:  Mathematics placement test (score of 20-64) on Algebra Domain 1

 

Overview:  Introduction to the application of statistics emphasizing a conceptual approach to the basic ideas and reasoning of statistics.  Topics include descriptive statistics, probability (uncertainty), statistics inference (estimation and hypothesis testing).  Computer applications laboratory.

 

Topics Include:

 

1.   Descriptive Statistics

  • Pictures of the data
  • Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion, Relative Standing
  • Empirical Rule, Symmetry of Data, Sampling Methods

2.   Probability

  • Introduction, Rules of Probability
  • Random Variables, discrete and continuous
  • Binomial distributions
  • Normal distributions
  • Central Limit Theorem
  • Sampling distributions

3.   Confidence Intervals for mean and population proportions

4.   Hypothesis Testing

  • One sample test of mean and population proportions
  • *Two sample testing of the difference of means

5.   Introduction to Simple Regression

  • *Calculation of parameter estimates
  • *Hypothesis test of the Slope
  • *Correlation Coefficient

6.   Chi-Square Test of Independence

 

*With the use and interpretation of related computer output

 

Text Effective Fall 2006:  Introductory Statistics, Mann, 6th Ed., ISBN 0-471-75530-3.