MA 1230 - Statistics

Credits: 3

This is an introductory course in the fundamentals of modern statistical methods. The goal of this course is to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills for working with statistics. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, random sampling, tests of hypotheses, estimation, simple linear regression, and correlation. Upon successful completion of the course, students will have increased their understanding of statistics and have improved their capacity for working with statistics.

Prerequisites: none

Course Learning Outcomes:

Understand how data is collected, analyzed, and illustrated.
Understand how to create graphs and charts using Excel.
Understands descriptive statistics for sets of quantitative data.
Understands fundamental inferential statistics for a set of data.
Understands a variety of statistical analyses.

Required Textbooks:
Statistical Reasoning: For Everyday Life - ISBN: 9780321817624