3470:260 Basic Statistics, 3 credits

Offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite:  Mathematics placement test (score of 65 and above on Algebra Doman 1) or 3450:100 Intermediate Algebra

 

Course Description:  Introduction to the application of statistics emphasizing data description and statistical inference (hypothesis testing, estimation).  Analysis of ratios, rates, and proportions.  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

 

Text effective Fall 2006:  Statistics:  The Exploration and Analysis of Data, Devore/Peck, 5th Ed., ISBN 0-534-46723-7.

 

*With the use and interpretation of related computer output