M358K APPLIED STATISTICS

Prerequisite and degree relevance:

The prerequisite is M362K with grade of C or better. This course is intended for students planning to teach secondary mathematics, students working for a BA in mathematics, and students in the natural sciences. Students preparing for graduate work in mathematical statistics should take M378K instead of or after taking this course.

Course Description:

This is a first course in applied statistics, building on previous experience with probability. Emphasis will be on development of statistical thinking and working with real data.

Topics include: exploratory data analysis, regression and correlation, introduction to planning and conducting surveys and experiments, sampling distributions, confidence intervals (for proportions, means, differences between proportions, differences between two means-- paired and unpaired), and tests of significance (for proportions, means, differences between proportions, differences between means; chi-squared test; one and two sample t procedures; inference for slope of least squares line; analysis of variance).

Students will be expected to apply the statistical ideas they learn in one or more projects. The statistical software Minitab will be used extensively in the course.

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