Prerequisites

CIT 12000 or ECET 10900 or MATH 15300 or MATH-M 118

Offered

Fall, Spring

Software

Credit By Exam

Yes

Coordinator

J. Clark

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Use of Statistics

Examine who really uses statistics
Examine how statistics is used
Provide a very short history of the use of statistics

Grouping and Displaying Data to Convey Meaning

Show the difference between samples and populations
Convert raw data to useful information
Construct and use frequency distributions
Graph frequency distributions
Use frequency distributions to make decisions

Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion in Frequency Distributions

Use summary statistics to describe collections of data
Use the mean, median, and mode to describe how data "bunch up"
Use the range, variance, and standard deviation to describe how data "spread out"
Examine computer-based exploratory data analysis to see other useful ways to summarize data

Probability: Introductory Ideas

Examine the use of probability theory in decision making
Explain the different ways probabilities arise
Develop rules for calculating different kinds of probabilities
Use probabilities to take new information into account
State the definition and use of Bayes' theorem

Probability Distributions

Introduce the probability distributions most commonly used in decision making
Use the concept of expected value to make decisions
Show which probability distribution to use and how to find its values
Understand the limitations of each of the probability distributions used

Sampling and Sampling Distributions

Take a sample from an entire population and use it to describe the population
Make sure the samples taken are an accurate representation of the population from which they came
Introduce the concepts of sampling distributions
Understand the trade-offs between the cost of taking larger samples and the additional accuracy this gives to decisions made from them

Statistical Distributions

Random Sampling Techniques
Approximating binomial distributions with normal distributions
Introduction and basic use of statistical software