The course will include descriptive statistics, normal distribution and an introduction to correlation and hypothesis testing. An introduction to statistical concepts and methods. Not open to department majors. Recommended for departmental majors as the beginning applied statistics course. On the job experience designed to complement the major.
Internships are available only in selected areas.
Consult with departmental advisor. The analysis of data taken from the social sciences. The computer will be a tool for the course. The mathematical development of discrete and continuous probability distributions including multivariate distributions, moments and moment generating functions, the special discrete and continuous probability distributions, the normal distribution, sampling distributions, and hypothesis testing. The further mathematical development of special probability densities, functions of random variables, sampling distributions, decision theory, point and interval estimators, hypotheses testing, and covariance.