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Oct 22, 2025
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MATH& 146 - Introduction to Statistics 5 credits
Prerequisites A grade of “C” or better in MATH 097 or appropriate placement score.
MATH& 146 is a standard introductory course in basic statistics. Content includes: the graphical display of data; the numerical summary of data; the normal distributions of data; the basics of surveys and experiments; basic probability theory; the central limit theorem; sampling distributions; confidence intervals; hypothesis tests; the t-distribution; correlation; and linear regression. Applications are drawn from business, social and natural sciences, and current events.
Theory Hours 5 theory hours.
AA Specified Elective Satisfies quantitative skills requirement, science distribution area F requirement, or specified elective for the AA degree.
Course Outcomes
- Create, interpret, and describe distributions and normal curves
- Create, interpret, and describe data using sampling, experiments and probability
- Create, interpret, and describe sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and tests of significance
- Create, interpret, and describe inference in practice, inference about a population mean and two sample problems
- Create, interpret, and describe inference about population proportions, scatterplots, correlation and regression
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