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