Mathematics Department

MAT 1140 - Introduction to Statistics
3 credit hours

Basic statistical concepts covering descriptive and inferential techniques are applied to a variety of fields.
Prerequisite: Math placement score or a grade of “C” or higher in MAT 1040 {formerly 104].

Books:

Brase and Brase. Understandable Statistics, 9th edition.
Cengage Learning, 2009.



Or

Interactive Statistics (3rd Edition)

Aliaga and Gunderson. Interactive Statistics, 3rd edition.
Prentice Hall, 2006

Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, each student should be able to:

1. Basic statistical concepts outlining descriptive and inferential procedures and goals.
2. Descriptive techniques including statistical measures and graphic techniques.
3. Basic probability including conditional and independent structures.
4. Random variables & probability distributions for common statistical measures.
5. Sampling distributions covering means and proportions.
6. Hypothesis testing the difference of means and proportions for both one and two samples.
7. Simple linear regression and correlation.




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