COL Karen Gutermuth
Professor of Economics and Business

MA 105 Intro to Probability and Statistics I

Summer Transition Program 2007

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Required Text: Elementary Statistics, 10^th Edition, by Mario F. Triola, Pearson/Addison Wesley Publishing.  ISBN 0-321-33183-4. 

Also, I highly recommend you have a TI83 or TI84 for use in this course.  If you already have another statistical/graphing calculator, you may use it, although I won’t be able to help you with its operation.

 Course Objectives: This course is an introduction to statistics, emphasizing statistical literacy and critical thinking.  The course includes problem solving skills, counting principles, finite probability theory, descriptive statistics and the binomial and normal distributions. Computer/calculator applications will be chosen to enhance understanding of the topics. By the end of the course, you should be able to

  compute & interpret descriptive statistics
  construct & interpret histograms and frequency tables
  compute elementary probabilities using counting techniques and basic laws of probability
  define binomial distribution & calculate probabilities using that distribution
  define normal distribution & compute probabilities using that distribution

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Miscellaneous: As with any math course, statistics can only be mastered through practice, practice, and always more practice.   Be sure to practice what we have covered in class every chance you get.  And remember, getting that final number isn’t the end;  interpreting it is!

A complete syllabus.

Last updated on 24 July 2008