(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 MATH 1342 or MTH 1813 but not both.

Inferential Statistics: Some summaries of statistics courses use the phrases "descriptive statistics" and "inferential statistics". MATH 1342 includes both descriptive and inferential statistics. We cover the standard inferential statistics topics usually taught in a beginning course, including the usual confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for means, proportions, and regression models.

Prerequisite Review Sheets

Departmental First-Day Handout

Important information about the text: The text has a CD in the back. Do not open that until you are sure that you will stay in the course and will not need to return the new book. Generally bookstores will not accept a return of anything with software if the software has been opened. You will not need to open use this CD until you are sure that you intend to stay in the course.

Learning Objectives

Information about Computer Software, Videotapes, and the CD accompanying the text

Department Curriculum Committee: Mary Parker, chair.

• Mary Parker

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