Math Course Advisement Information
MAT 102 Advisement Information
MAT 102: Introduction to Statistics (3 credits)
Description: Appropriate and inappropriate uses of statistics, measures of central tendency, variability, some basic concepts of probability, the binomial distribution, the normal and t-distributions, testing hypotheses, estimation, chi-square, linear regression, and correlation.
In newspapers, television, magazines and on the Internet, we see graphs and figures that are presented to us as facts. It is useful to know how this information is gathered and organized, and to determine whether these claims seem accurate or misleading. Introductory statistics is an important course for understanding such data and achieving success in many professional careers.
In this course, students will study
- appropriate and inappropriate uses of statistics,
- the organization and presentation of data,
- descriptive statistics,
- linear correlation and regression,
- probability applications,
- discrete and continuous probability distributions,
- sample distributions,
- estimation,
- hypothesis testing,
- the chi-square distribution.