Mathematics 307, Principles of Probability and Statistics (3cr)
History of statistics overview, descriptive statistics (histograms, stemand
leaf plot, boxplots, etc.; measures of central tendency and dispersion,correlation),
probability (experiments, sample space, basic probability,conditional probability,
independence, random variables, expected value),probability distributions
and statistical inference (Counting techniques,binomial distribution, normal
distribution, sampling distribution, centrallimit theorem, applications)
Prerequisite: MATH 107-108 Fundamentals of Mathematics
I and II or permission of the instructor.
Preliminary course outline.