MAT-2210 Statistics

Credits 3
This course provides an introduction to statistical concepts and applications, including probability, random variables, sampling, hypothesis testing, and linear regression. Excel, or another appropriate statistical software package will be used throughout the course.

Prerequisite(s): Appropriate Math Placement or successful completion of MAT-1250 or MAT-1350 with a grade of C or higher.

Course Outcomes

Produce histograms, scatter plots, box plots and analyze information contained in them.
Interpret information contained in statistical measures.
Compute probabilities of random variables using basic rules of probability, the normal, student’s-t, and binomial probability distributions.
Compute confidence interval estimates for common statistical measures.
Use statistical testing procedures to perform hypotheses tests.
Compute linear regressions and correlation coefficients using data taken from various sources.