Introduction to Statistics

Catalog description

A first course in probability and statistics; random sampling; graphical and numeric summaries of qualitative and quantitative data; correlation and least squares regression; probability and random variables; the normal distribution, sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem; confidence intervals for one mean and one proportion; sample size estimation; hypothesis tests for one parameter, power and type I and II errors; statistical inference for the difference of two means based on independent samples and matched pairs designs; statistical inference for the difference of two population proportions.