MAT 141 Introductory Statistics 4 credits
This introductory course in statistics focuses on statistical reasoning and its use in solving real-world problems and in interpreting results reported in journals and through popular media. The content includes the following: basic descriptive statistics, basic probability theory, random variables and probability distributions, sampling distributions for statistics, statistical inferences involving confidence interval estimation and hypotheses testing for means, standard deviations and proportions, correlation and regression. R (4 lecture hours) IAI: M1 902; BUS 901
Prerequisite: MAT 096 with a minimum grade of C or appropriate placement score AND one year of high school geometry or MAT 093 with a minimum grade of C