The Practice of Statistics

Catalog description

This course is designed to acquaint students with statistical methods used in gathering and analyzing data. The course includes: sampling methods and data classification; descriptive statistics; percentiles and z-scores; basic concepts in probability; binomial and normal probability distributions; the Central Limit Theorem; estimating population parameters; hypothesis testing; linear correlation and regression; interval estimation and hypothesis testing with two samples; and chi-square tests of independence. STAT 1450 is intended primarily for students needing a college level, non-calculus based course in probability and statistics.