MA205 - Elements of Statistics

3 Credit(s)

Statistics and data science predict and explain almost all aspects of our society. You will learn how political polls, medical studies, and scientific experiments are designed, analyzed, and verified. You will also learn how to spot common statistical and logical errors and how to prevent them. Additionally, you will learn the ideas used to build games of chance such as poker, blackjack, and lotteries. Topics include sampling and blocking methods, measures of center and variation, data plots (scatterplot, histograms, bar plots, time series, ), probability, probability distributions (binomial, geometric, normal,), Central Limit Theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing for means and proportion, correlation, and regression.

General Education Designation: Natural Science and Math
Bucket #3 - Mathematics & Statistics Discipline Area MAT1020
Book Requirements: Y
Transfer: Y