Montgomery College - Department of Mathematics Rockville Campus MA116 – Elements of Statistics 3 Semester Hours Description An introductory non-calculus statistics course to serve a variety of students who need a working knowledge of statistics. Descriptive analysis and treatment of data, probability and probability distributions, statistical inference, linear regression and correlation, chi-square, and some nonparametric statistics MA116 meets 3 hours each week. Prerequisites A grade of C or better in MA 101 or MA 103, appropriate score on mathematics assessment test, or consent of department. Assessment levels: EN 101/101A, RD 120. Topics I. Describing, Exploring and Comparing Data 1. Design of Experiments 2. Frequency Distributions 3. Measures of the Center 4. Measures of Variation 5. Measures of Relative Standing 6. Exploratory Data Analysis II. Probability 1. Assigning Probabilities 2. Rules 3. Binomial Distributions 4. Normal Distributions 5. Sampling Distributions and Estimators 6. The Central Limit Theorem III. Estimates and Sample Sizes 1. Estimating a Population Proportion 2. Estimating a Population Mean IV. Hypothesis Testing 1. Testing a Claim about a Proportion 2. Testing a Claim about a MeanV. Inferences from Two Samples 1. Inferences about Two Proportions 2. Inferences about Two Means 3. Inferences from Matched Pairs VI. Correlation and Regression VII. Chi-Square Distribution VIII. Nonparametric Statistics 1. Sign Test or Rank Sum Test Text Understandable Statistics, by Brase & Brase, 9th Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2009. Or Basic Practices of Statistics, 4th Ed., Moore,
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