(Three credit hours, three lecture hours per week during a 16-week semester, no lab hours)

Catalog description: A first course in statistics for students in business; nursing; allied health; or the social, physical, or behavioral sciences; or for any student requiring knowledge of the fundamental procedures for data organization and analysis. Topics include frequency distributions, graphing, measures of location and variation, the binomial and normal distributions, z-scores, t-test, chi-square test, F-test, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression, and correlation. Prerequisites: Two years of high school algebra or the equivalent or a satisfactory score on the appropriate placement test. Credit can be earned for either MTH 1563 or MTH 1813 but not both.

Expanded course description (Not yet available)

Prerequisite Review Sheets, Expanded prerequisite information (not yet available)

Departmental First-Day Handout

Learning Objectives

Department Curriculum Committee: Mary Parker, chair; Mike Dellens, Louise Hasty, Jerry Caples, Elizabeth Murff (contact info for these faculty members)

• Mary Parker

Last updated May 31, 1999. mparker@austin.cc.tx.us