Course Syllabus

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Course Goals

The primary goals for this course are to help you to develop:

  • the ability to apply and interpret the results of a variety of statistical techniques, including both exploratory and inferential methods,
  • an understanding of many of the fundamental ideas of statistics, such as variability, distribution, association, causation, sampling, experimentation, confidence, and significance,
  • a critical perspective with which to analyze and assess statistical arguments such as one would encounter in the popular press as well as in scholarly publications.

 

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  • Distinguish among different scales of measurement and their implications,
  • Interpret data displayed in tables and graphically,
  • Apply concepts of sample space and probability,
  • Calculate measures of central tendency and variation for a given data set,
  • Identify the standard methods of obtaining data and identify the advantages and disadvantages of each,
  • Calculate the mean and variance of a discrete distribution,
  • Calculate probabilities using normal and student’s t-distributions,
  • Distinguish the difference between sample and population distributions and analyze the role played by the Central Limit Theorem,
  • Use linear regression for estimation and interpret the associated statistics, and
  • Use appropriate statistical techniques to analyze and interpret applications based on data from disciplines including business, social sciences, psychology, life science, health science, and education.

 

Course Content

  • Summarizing data graphically and numerically,
  • Descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency, variation, relative position, 
  • Sample spaces and probability,
  • Random variables,
  • Sampling and sampling distributions,
  • Binomial distributions,
  • Normal distributions,
  • The Central Limit Theorem,
  • Correlation and linear regression, and
  • Applications using data from disciplines including business, social sciences, psychology, life science, health science, and education.

 

Textbook

Your textbook for this class is available for free online!
Statistics from OpenStax, ISBN 1-947172-05-0

You have several options to obtain this book:

You can use whichever formats you want. Web view is recommended -- the responsive design works seamlessly on any device.

 

Calculator

You are certainly allowed and encouraged to use any calculator that you already own and are comfortable with.  You do not need to purchase a specific calculator for this course.  We will make use of various web resources that are free.  

 

Grading

The following describes the method of computing the final grade for this course:

Discussions/Assignments    10%

Homework                             25%

Case Study                             15%

Midterm Exam                       20%

Cumulative Final Exam         30%

 

Grading System

A         93% and above

A-        90 - 92%

B+       87 - 89%

B         83 - 86%

B-        80 - 82%

C+       77 - 79%

C         73 - 76%

C-        70 - 72%

D         60 - 69%

F          59% and below

 

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to observe, at all times, the highest ethical standards as members of the academic community. Any form of dishonesty makes a student liable to severe sanctions, including expulsion from the College. For details, see the Academic Standards section under Academic Information in the General Information Area of the College Catalog or in the Community Standards area of the Student Handbook.  Reference the Student Resources link to the left or click here.  Then scroll down near the bottom of the page and read all of the Student Support Statements.  Take the Student Support Statements Quiz when you are finished.

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