Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
PLNS-0086
Organization's ID:
PLNS-0086
Organization:
Pearson
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
12 -- 15 weeks (89.5 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Introductory Statistics, General Statistics, or General Education Statistics
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to offer students the skills necessary to interpret and critically evaluate statistics commonly used to describe, predict, and evaluate data in an information driven environment. The focus is on the conceptual understanding of how statistics can be used and how to evaluate statistical data.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Explain the fundamentals of a statistical study
  • Describe data sets and their measures in different forms
  • Use descriptive statistics to describe and make statements about the data set
  • Use inferential statistical tests to describe the population parameters
  • Construct confidence intervals and use them to interpret population means
  • Formulate null and research hypotheses for claims made about population means
  • Use an appropriate statistical technique to test a hypothesis
  • Describe the linear association for a set of paired data
  • Calculate and interpret the chi-square test of independence
  • Interpret probabilities outcomes
  • Describe a normal distribution and make calculations using z-scores
  • Use excel to organize data, and to calculate and interpret statistical tests

General Topics:

  • Introduction to statistics
  • Definitions/terminology
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Probability
  • Normal distributions and standard scores
  • Confidence intervals
  • Hypothesis testing with one sample
  • Hypothesis testing for three or more groups
  • Correlation and regression
  • Chi-square test of independence
  • Using excel to perform statistical tests
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Quizzes

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials