Statistics
STA 291 STATISTICAL METHOD (3)
Consists of Statistics 292, 293 and 294
Introduction to principles of statistics. Statistical description of sample data including frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, and measures of dispersion. Theoretical distributions, statistical estimation, and hypothesis testing. Introduction to simple linear regression and correlation.
Prereq: MA 113, MA 123 or MA 131 or equivalent.
Tuition: $931
Brase and Brase. Understanding Basic Statistics. 1st ed. Houghton Mifflin, 1997
STA 292 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS (1)
13 lessons, final
Graphical and tabular description of data; measures of central tendency and variation, scattergrams, correlation and best-fitting lines; index numbers. You will need a calculator capable of calculating means and standard deviations.
Prereq: MA 113, MA 123, or MA 131, or consent of instructor.
Tuition: $317
See Statistics 291 for textbook information
STA 293 PROBABILITY (1)
13 lessons, final
Experiments and sample spaces; elementary and conditional probability; counting principles; random variables; distribution and expectation; normal and binomial distributions. You will need a calculator with mean and standard deviation keys.
Prereq: STA 292.
Tuition: $317
See Statistics 291 for textbook information
STA 294 SAMPLING AND INFERENCE (1)
12 lessons, final
Sampling; sampling behavior of X and S2; confidence intervals and test of hypotheses about the mean and variance of a normal population: the X2 and t-distributions. You will need a calculator with mean and standard deviation keys.
Prereq: STA 292 and 293.
Tuition: $317
See Statistics 291 for textbook information