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Professor 's Syllabus
Professor 's Name: Jamie Bradley
Course Title and Number: MATH 156 – Introduction to Statistics
Semester: Summer 2014
Office Location: TBA
E-Mail Address: jamie_bradley@portal.ocean.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Catalog Description: An introductory level course for non-mathematics majors who need or desire a working knowledge of statistics. This course is oriented towards all fields in which statistics finds applications. Topics include: summarizing data, probability, normal and binomial distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and correlation. This is a writing intensive course in which students write essays totaling 1200 word (minimum). Students’ essays must be maintained in a folder and may be used for college assessment purposes.
Required Text and other Materials: Stat Basics by F. Selcen Kilinc, second edition. Besides the text, a graphing calculator is strongly recommended, preferably a TI83 or TI84.
Course Learning Outcomes/Objectives (from the Official Course Description): Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
a. Develop the student’s use of basic statistical tools needed to summarize and analyze data from real problems.
b. Develop the student’s awareness of the use of statistics in experimental procedures and decision making.
c. Recognize sampling methods and levels of data.
d. Explain statistical terms.
e. Interpret descriptive statistics.
f. Illustrate statistical information using appropriate graphs.
g. Apply appropriate probability formulas.
h. Compare different probability distributions.
i. Construct confidence intervals.
j. Perform appropriate hypothesis tests.
k. Apply correlation and regression analysis to bi-variable data.
Exams: Exam grades represent the most significant part of your final grade. We will have 3 exams. No make-up exams will be provided for unexcused absences. If you do
Professor 's Syllabus
Professor 's Name: Jamie Bradley
Course Title and Number: MATH 156 – Introduction to Statistics
Semester: Summer 2014
Office Location: TBA
E-Mail Address: jamie_bradley@portal.ocean.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Catalog Description: An introductory level course for non-mathematics majors who need or desire a working knowledge of statistics. This course is oriented towards all fields in which statistics finds applications. Topics include: summarizing data, probability, normal and binomial distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals and correlation. This is a writing intensive course in which students write essays totaling 1200 word (minimum). Students’ essays must be maintained in a folder and may be used for college assessment purposes.
Required Text and other Materials: Stat Basics by F. Selcen Kilinc, second edition. Besides the text, a graphing calculator is strongly recommended, preferably a TI83 or TI84.
Course Learning Outcomes/Objectives (from the Official Course Description): Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
a. Develop the student’s use of basic statistical tools needed to summarize and analyze data from real problems.
b. Develop the student’s awareness of the use of statistics in experimental procedures and decision making.
c. Recognize sampling methods and levels of data.
d. Explain statistical terms.
e. Interpret descriptive statistics.
f. Illustrate statistical information using appropriate graphs.
g. Apply appropriate probability formulas.
h. Compare different probability distributions.
i. Construct confidence intervals.
j. Perform appropriate hypothesis tests.
k. Apply correlation and regression analysis to bi-variable data.
Exams: Exam grades represent the most significant part of your final grade. We will have 3 exams. No make-up exams will be provided for unexcused absences. If you do