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Fall 2023
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| STAT 117 - Introduction to Statistics |
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An introduction to the discipline of statistics, emphasizing both statistical thinking and analysis of real-world data. Topics include sampling, organizing and exploring data, probability distributions such as the normal distribution, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, and correlation and regression. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of collected data in order to apply an appropriate inferential test. Students are expected to express results of statistical procedures in ordinary non-technical language. Appropriate statistical software is explored. Note: Students may not receive credit for both this course and STAA 127 Statistics for Social Sciences, STAT 107 Business Statistics, STAT 157 Probability and Statistics, or STAT 203 Statistics for the Natural Sciences.
Prerequisite: Satisfactory mathematics placement.
1.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Non-Matriculated, Post-Baccalaureate Tchr Lcnse, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent/Directed Study, Lecture Mathematics Department Course Attributes: D.v1_DomainGenEd-Domain II-A, D.v1_DomainGenEd-Core Math, Undergraduate Level Course, Lrng Objective 03, Lrng Objective 08 |
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