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Summer 2020 Schedule and Textbook Information for STAT 350

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STAT 350 - Textbook(s) for Summer 2020

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24109Introductory Statistics: A Problem Solving ApproachStephen Kokoska97814641116932ndY


STAT 350 - Schedule information for Summer 2020

Schedule information is not available at this time.


STAT 350 - Course Outline

A. Data Analysis
Describing distributions (graphics, center and spread, comparing and selecting descriptions); Describing relationships (graphics, regression and correlation, influence, interpreting relationships).

B. Data Production
Sampling design; Design of experiments.

C. Probability distributions and simulation
The idea of a sampling distribution; The idea of probability and probability distributions; Simulating discrete and continuous distributions; Sampling distribution of sample means (law of large numbers, central limit theorem).

D. The reasoning of inference
Confidence intervals; Significance tests

E. Basic inference procedures
Inference about distributions (t procedures, robustness); Inference about proportions (z and X2 procedures)

F. Regression inference
Simple linear regression (inference about slope and prediction); Introducing multiple regression (regression models, meaning of regression coefficients, interactions among explanatory variables).

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