Stat 301: Elementary Statistical Methods (Banner Course Number: 30100)
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We believe the information about textbooks to be accurate but the campus bookstores are the official source of information on textbooks. Please check with them for verification before purchasing texts for a specific academic semester or session.Fall 2009 textbooks are:
Moore, McCabe and Craig, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 6th Edition, Required
Moore, McCabe and Craig, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics - eBook, 6th Edition, Required
Summer 2009 textbooks were:
Moore, McCabe and Craig, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 6th Edition, Required
Moore, McCabe and Craig, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics - eBook 6th Edition,
Spring 2010 textbooks will be:
Moore, McCabe and Craig, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics - eBook, 6th Edition, Required
Moore, McCabe and Craig, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 6th Edition, Required
Outline:
1. Organization and Introduction to Data Display- Types of data
- Graphical and numerical summaries of data
2. Experimental and sampling design
- Design of experiments
- Survey sampling
- Causation, confounding, common response
- Ethics in experiments
3. Probability to Inference
- Normal distribution calculations for X
- Normal approximation to the binomial for sample proportions
- Sample means and the Central Limit Theorem
- Basics of quality control for x-bar charts
4. Introduction to Inference (Normal case, variance known)
- Confidence intervals
- Choosing the sample size
- Significance test for a population mean
5. Inference for Distributions and Count Data
- Inference for the means and proportions. Matched pairs for means. One-way ANOVA and Bonferroni Multiple Comparisons t tests. Two-way ANOVA
6. Data Relationships and Inference for Regression
- Scatterplots, simple linear regression, estimation of coefficients prediction intervals, correlation
- Multiple regression
