Objective:
The course objective is to teach foundational skills that will enable students to be successful in a college level statistics course; and learn about fundamental concepts in statistics such as central tendency, variation, correlation, probability, and statistical analysis.
Learning Outcomes:
- And apply statistical concepts in context
- Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to evaluate statistical methods
- Calculate probability, measures of central tendency, and measures of variation
- Interpret descriptive and inferential statistics
General Course Topics:
- Introduction to statistics
- Experiments
- Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio data
- Classifying data
- Determining the center of data
- Graphing data
- Normal distribution
- Skewed distributions
- Range
- Variation
- Correlation
- Correlation and causation
- Probability
- Independent and dependent events
- Normal distributions and probability
- Standard normal distribution
- Calculating z-scores
- Z-scores and probability
- Data from multiple samples
- Determining likelihood of a mean
- Determining significance levels
- Type I and type II errors
- Confidence intervals