STAT 3128 Course Outline

Week 1 Introduction to statistics, descriptive statistics, measures of location and variability

Week 2 Sample spaces, events, properties of probability

Week 3 Counting Techniques, conditional probability, independence

Week 4 Discrete random variables, expected values, the binomial distribution

Week 5 Catch up and Review for Test 1; Test #1

Week 6 Continuous random variables, probability density functions, cumulative distribution functions

Week 7 Expected values of continuous random variables, the normal distribution

Week 8 The distribution of the sample mean, single sample confidence intervals for the mean

Week 9 Confidence intervals for proportion and variance, single sample tests of hypothesis for the mean (large samples)

Week 10 Single sample tests of hypothesis for the mean (small samples), single sample test of hypothesis for proportion

Week 11 Catch up and Review for Test 2; Test #2

Week 12 Comparing two population means: confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for two samples

Week 13 Paired data and comparing two population proportions, intro to linear regression

Week 14 Linear regression

Week 15 Catch up and Review for Test #3; Test #3

Week 16 Review for the Final Exam