MATH 2300 (Trindade) --- Statistical Methods --- Fall 2010

Basic Information

Text Books

• Required: Statistics: The Art of Learning from Data, (2nd ed.), by Agresti & Franklin, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009.

Important Dates

Course Objectives and Syllabus

• Chapter 1: Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data(1 days).
• Chapter 2: Exploring Data with Graphs and Numerical Summaries (4 days).
• Chapter 3: Association: Contingency, Correlation, and Regression (4 days).
• Chapter 4: (Optional).
• Chapter 5: Probability, Probability Distributions and Sampling Distributions (4 days).
• Chapter 6: Probability Distributions (3 days).
• Chapter 7: Sampling Distributions (4 days).
• Chapter 8: Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals (4 days).
• Chapter 9: Statistical Inference: Significance Tests about Hypotheses (5 days).
• Chapter 10: Comparing Two Groups (3 days).

Expected Student Learning Outcomes

• Apply arithmetic, algebraic, geometric, statistical and logical reasoning to solve problems.
• Represent and evaluate basic mathematical and/or logical information numerically, graphically, and symbolically.
• Interpret mathematical and/or logical models such as formulas, graphs, tables and schematics, and draw inference from them.

• Develop proficiency in solving real-world problems
• Compute various statistical measures, including the mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, and quartiles
• Utilize graphical representations of data
• Solve problems involving the binomial and normal distributions
• Apply the Central Limit Theorem
• Compute and interpret confidence intervals
• Conduct and interpret hypothesis tests
• Use linear regression models.

Methods of Assessing the Expected Learning Outcomes

• A: 90-100%.
• B: 80-89%.
• C: 70-79%.
• D: 60-69%.
• F: 0-59%.

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