MATH 181   Statistics* (3 Hours)

Prerequisites : MATH 171 with a grade of "C" or higher or MATH 173 with a grade of "C" or higher or appropriate score on the math placement test.

This is a beginning course in statistical analysis, the skill of making sense of raw data, constructing graphical representations of data, developing models for making predictions, performing tests to determine significant change and finding intervals for population values. Students will learn the basics of descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, confidence intervals, distributions, hypothesis testing, regression and correlation. Use of technology will be incorporated into course topics.