DEPARTMENT OF STATIS TICS
BUCHTEL COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
330.972.6886 (TELEPHONE)
Course Description
3470:260
Basic Statistics
3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 3450:100 or placement test (ACT >= 21 or SAT >=
500 or Compass 1-ALG >= 65 or Compass 2-CAG >= 0 or Compass 4-TRG >= 0)
Course Description: Applied approach to data description and statistical inference
(hypothesis testing, estimation). Analysis of ratios, rates, and proportions. Computer
applications Laboratory.
Course Topics:
Descriptive Statistics
Pictures of the data
Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion, Relative Standing
Empirical Rule, Symmetry of Data, Sampling Methods
Probability
Introduction, Rules of Probability
Random Variables, discrete and continuous
Binomial distributions
Normal distributions
Central Limit Theorem
Sampling distributions
Confidence Intervals for mean and population proportions
Hypothesis Testing
One sample test of mean and population proportions
*Two sample testing of the difference of means
Introduction to Simple Regression
*Calculation of parameter estimates
*Hypothesis test of the Slope
*Correlation Coefficient
Chi-Square Test of Independence
*With the use and interpretation of related computer output
Fall 2014