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Probability and Statistics
Course Syllabus
The textbook being used is Understandable Statistics (Sixth Edition) by Brase and Brase. The
Houghton Mifflin Company publishes the book, copyright 1999.
Chapter 1
Getting Started: What is Statistics? Calculators and Computers in Statistics,
Where Will I Use Statistics?
Chapter 2
Organizing Data: Random Samples, Graphs, Histograms and Frequency
Distributions, Stem-and-Leaf Displays
Chapter 3
Averages and Variation: Measures of Central Tendency: Mode, Median, and
Mean, Measures of Variation, Mean and Standard Deviation of Grouped Data,
Percentiles and Box-and-Whisker Plots
Chapter 4
Elementary Probability Theory: What is Probability? Some Probability RulesCompound Events, Trees and Counting Techniques
Chapter 5
The Binomial Probability Distribution and Related Topics: Introduction to
Random Variables and Probability Distributions, Binomial Probabilities,
Additional Properties of the Binomial Distribution, The Geometric and Poisson
Probability Distributions
Chapter 6
Normal Distributions: Graphs of Normal Probability Distributions, Standard
Units and Areas Under the Standard Normal Distribution, Areas Under Any
Normal Curve, Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution