Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Exam

ACE ID:

DANT-0046

Organization's ID:

SS450; ST450

Organization:

Prometric Inc, DSST Credit-by-Exam

Location:

Prometric DSST exams are offered at colleges, universities or military bases that are not owned by Prometric.

Length:

2 hours

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	introductory statistics

Credit is recommended for candidates scoring 400 or above

Description

Objective:

This exam was developed to enable schools to award credit to students for knowledge equivalent to that learned by students taking the course. This exam tests the understanding of the principles and concepts underlying higher-order statistics, continuous and discrete distributions, use of predictive statistics using the linear model, and confidence intervals.

Skills Measured:

The skills measured include foundations of statistics (20 percent); probability (20 percent); correlation and regression (15 percent); sampling distributions (15 percent); and inferential statistics (30 percent).

Instruction & Assessment