Introduction to Statistics | Grays Harbor College

Course Number:

MATH&146

Course Credits:

5.00

Course Description:

MATH&146 is standard introductory course in basic statistics. Content includes: the graphical display of data; the numerical summary of data; the basics of surveys and experiments; basic probability theory; the central limit theorem; sampling distributions; confidence intervals hypothesis tests; the t-distribution; correlation; and linear regression. Applications are drawn from business, social and natural sciences, and current events. 5 lecture hours. Satisfies quantitative skills requirement or science distribution area F requirement or specified elective for the AA degree.

Course Prerequisites:

Prerequisites: A grade of "C" or better in MATH 097 or appropriate placement score.

Course Outcomes:

Create, interpret and describe distributions and normal curves.
Create, interpret and describe data using sampling, experiments and probability.
Create, interpret and describe sampling distributions, confidence intervals and tests of significance.
Create, interpret and describe inference in practice, inference about a population mean and two sample problems.
Create, interpret and describe inferences about population proportions, scatterplots, correlation and regression.