MATH 1410 - Statistics

4.5 Credits

Students will develop a critical and functional understanding of data. Topics include frequency distributions; measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability and probability distributions; sampling concepts; estimating means, variances, standard deviations; proportions and percentages; hypothesis testing; and correlation and linear regression. Software and calculators will be used as appropriate throughout the course.

Prerequisites: Within two years prior to beginning the course, either successful completion of MATH 0960 with a grade of “P”, or placement via ACT or MCC placement test

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

1. Organize, summarize and report upon the significance and characteristics of a set of data.

2. Identify whether a probabilistic event is simple or compound and then calculate the probability that this event will occur.

3. Conduct appropriate hypothesis tests and draw conclusions based upon the results of that hypothesis test.

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