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This 15-unit course provides an introduction to statistics and data analysis. It covers topics such as collecting and presenting data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, correlation, and analysis of variance. The course allotts time to each topic, with the most time spent on probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, tests of hypothesis, regression, and correlation. Suggested textbooks for the course are also provided.

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Statistics

This 15-unit course provides an introduction to statistics and data analysis. It covers topics such as collecting and presenting data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, correlation, and analysis of variance. The course allotts time to each topic, with the most time spent on probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, tests of hypothesis, regression, and correlation. Suggested textbooks for the course are also provided.

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15.40 STATISTICS Course Description: This course is an introduction to statistics and data analysis.

It covers the following: reasons for doing Statistics, collection, summarization and presentation of data, basic concepts in probability, point and interval estimation, and hypothesis testing. Credit: 3 units Topics Time Allotment a. Introduction 2 hours Description and history of statistical science Population and sample b. Collection and Presentation of Data 3 hours Preliminaries Methods of data collection Probability and non-probability sampling Tabular and graphical presentations o The frequency distribution o The stem-and-leaf display o Cross tabulations o Histograms c. Measures of Central Tendency and Location 2 hours Notations and symbols
66 Commission on Higher Education Policies and Standards for the Undergraduate Mathematics Programs

The arithmetic mean The median The mode Measures of location (Fractiles) d. Measures of Dispersion and Skewness 2 hours Measures of absolute dispersion Measures of relative dispersion Measures of skewness The Boxplot e. Probability 3 hours Random experiments, sample spaces, events Properties of probability f. Probability Distribution 5 hours Concept of random variable Discrete and continuous probability distributions Expected values The normal distribution Other common distribution g. Sampling Distributions 3 hours h. Estimation 6 hours

Basic concepts of estimation Estimating the mean Estimating the difference of two population means Estimating proportions Estimating the difference of two proportions Sample size determination i. Tests of Hypothesis 8 hours Basic concepts of statistical hypothesis testing Testing a hypothesis on the population mean Testing the difference of two population means Testing a hypothesis on proportions Testing the difference between to proportions Test of independence j. Regression and Correlation 8 hours Correlation coefficient Testing the correlation coefficient Simple linear regression k. Analysis of Variance 3 hours
67 Commission on Higher Education Policies and Standards for the Undergraduate Mathematics Programs

Suggested text/references a. Walpole. Introduction to Statistics b. Freedman, Pisani and Purves. Statistics c. Devore. Probability and Statistics

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