| Course ID: | STAT 2000. 4 hours. 3 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. |
| Course Title: | Introductory Statistics |
Course
Description: | Introductory statistics, including the collection of data,
descriptive statistics, probability, and inference. Topics
include sampling methods, experiments, numerical and graphical
descriptive methods, correlation and regression, contingency
tables, probability concepts and distributions, confidence
intervals, and hypothesis testing for means and proportions. |
| Oasis Title: | Introductory Statistics |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in STAT 2000E, STAT 2100H, BIOS 2010, BIOS 2010E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | In this course, students will develop the ability to:
(1) evaluate statistical information in the world around them,
and
(2) analyze data using appropriate statistical methods. |
| Topical Outline: | Describing Data: organizing and displaying data, including
dotplots, histograms, stem-and-leaf plots, and boxplots;
numerical measures of center, spread and position; correlation
and regression; contingency tables.
Collecting Data: sampling methods, experiments, and
observational studies.
Probability: concepts and rules, discrete probability
distributions and expectation, binomial and normal
distributions, sampling distributions for the sample mean and
sample proportion.
Estimation and Inference: confidence intervals and hypothesis
testing for population means and proportions, paired difference
test, chi-square test for independence. |