An elementary introduction to statistics. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, estimation and hypothesis testing for means and proportions, correlation and regression.
Students use statistical software for assignments.
An introduction to probability with applications to the computer, information, engineering, physical, and biological sciences. Probability laws, discrete and continuous random variables, joint probability distributions, conditional distributions, independence, expectations, variable transformations, system reliability, and sampling distributions are presented. An emphasis on applications. Topics include analysis of variance, multiple regression, and nonparametric inference. A statistical computer package is used for data analysis.