Introduction to Statistics for Analytics

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to statistical concepts and applications and cultivate student statistical literacy. Topics that are covered include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, the Central Limit Theorem, applications of the normal distribution, sampling, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. In the first part of the course, students will become proficient in using Microsoft Excel to compute and convey information; in the second part of the course, students will use calculators to estimate probabilities, perform statistical functions, and inform decisions.