Math 125 - Introductory Statistics

Credits: 3

Course Description: Topics include introductory statistics, covering descriptive statistics; introductory probability sufficient to enable development of inferential statistics; and inferential statistics.

Pre-Requisites: A suitable score in Math placement test B or MATH Q114 or MATH 115.

Frequency:

Current Textbook: Statistics , 4th Edition, by David Freedman, Robert Pisani, and Roger Purves, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. Check with your instructor to make sure this is the textbook used for your section.

Fall 2008 Schedule:

Section	Meeting Time	Instructor
1	MWF 9:00am-9:50am	Hans Herda
2	MWF 11:00am-11:50am	Sheldon Kovitz
3	MWF 12:00am-12:50pm	Sheldon Kovitz
4	MWF 2:00pm-2:50pm	Hans Herda
5	MW 4:00pm-5:15pm	Isaac Reif
6	TuTh 8:00am-9:15am	Thomas Fratto
7	TuTh 11:00am-12:15am	Thomas Fratto
8	TuTh 12:30am-1:45pm	Jie Chen
9	TuTh 4:00pm-5:15pm	John Lutts
10	MWF 11:00am-11:50am	Sachidanand Jha
ccde1	Th 6:00pm-9:15pm	Zorica Djordjevic
ccde2	S 11:45am-3:00pm	Dorothy Forrest

Topics

Chapters 1-3:: Design of experiments; Observational Studies and the Histogram
Chapters 4-5:: The Average and Standard Deviation; the Normal approx. of data
Chapters 8-9:: Correlation; More about Correlation.
Chapters 10-11:: Regression; RMS Error for Regression.
Chapters 6, 7 & 12:: Measurement Error; Plotting points & lines; the Regression line.
Chapters 13-14:: What are chances? More about chance.
Chapters 15-17:: The Binomial formula, the Law of Averages, Expected value and standard error
Chapter 18:: Normal approximation for Probability Histograms.
Chapters 19-21:: Sample surveys, chance errors in sampling and accuracy of percentages
Chapters 22-23:: Measuring employment and unemployment; the accuracy of averages
Chapters 6, 24 & 26:: Model for measuring error; Tests of significance
Chapters 25.1, 27.1, 27.2, 28.1, - 28.4:: More tests on averages; Chi-Square test
Chapter 29:: A closer look at test for significance

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