|Principles of Statistics| |CLASS CODE:||MATH 221||CREDITS: 3|
|DIVISION:||PHYSICAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING| |GENERAL
EDUCATION:||This course fulfills a General Education - Math
requirement.| |DESCRIPTION:||Frequency distributions; measures
of central tendency and dispersion; elementary probability;
regression and correlation; sampling, statistical inference and
estimation involving the normal, t- and chi-square
distributions.| |TAUGHT:||Winter, Summer, Fall| |CONTENT AND
TOPICS:| |GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:||1. Organize data sets using
histograms, bar charts, stem-and-leaf charts, box plots,
numerical measures of center and variation. 2. Learn the
Empirical Rule and Chebyshev's theorem. 3. Understand basic
probability rules, discrete probability distributions, and
normal probability distributions. 4. Construct and interpret
confidence intervals for means and proportions. 5. Perform tests
of hypotheses involving means, proportions, linear correlation,
contingency tables. Utilize p-values. 6. Learn the theory of
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