DEPARTMENT OF STATIS TICS
BUCHTEL COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
330.972.6886 (TELEPHONE)
Course Description
3470:250
Statistics for Everyday Life
4 credits
Prerequisite: Placement test (ACT Math >= 19 or SAT Math >= 460 or
COMPASS 1-ALG >= 20 or Compass 2-CAG >= 0 or Compass 4-TRG >= 0) or
2010:052 (formerly 1020:052) or 057 with a grade of C or better.
Course Description: Conceptual approach to the basic ideas and reasoning of
statistics. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability (uncertainty), statistical
inference (estimation and hypothesis testing). 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