Math 125 - Introductory Statistics

Credits: 3

Course Description: Topics include introductory statistics, covering descriptive statistics; introductory probability sufficient to enable development of inferential statistics; and inferential statistics.

Pre-Requisites: A suitable score in Math placement test B or MATH Q114 or MATH 115.

Frequency:

Current Textbook: Statistics , 4th Edition, by David Freedman, Robert Pisani, and Roger Purves, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Check with your instructor to make sure this is the textbook used for your section.

Chapters 1-3:

Design of experiments; Observational Studies and the Histogram

Chapters 4-5:

The Average and Standard Deviation; the Normal approx. of data

Chapters 8-9:

Correlation; More about Correlation.

Chapters 10-11:

Regression; RMS Error for Regression.

Chapters 6, 7 & 12:

Measurement Error; Plotting points & lines; the Regression line.

Chapters 13-14:

What are chances? More about chance.

Chapters 15-17:

The Binomial formula, the Law of Averages, Expected value and standard error

Chapter 18:

Normal approximation for Probability Histograms.

Chapters 19-21:

Sample surveys, chance errors in sampling and accuracy of percentages

Chapters 22-23:

Measuring employment and unemployment; the accuracy of averages

Chapters 6, 24 & 26:

Model for measuring error; Tests of significance

Chapters 25.1, 27.1, 27.2, 28.1, - 28.4:

More tests on averages; Chi-Square test

Chapter 29:

A closer look at test for significance