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PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012
COURSE:
MA 103 BASIC STATISTICS
TEXT:
ELEMENTARY OF STATISTICS – 5TH EDITION
By Larson/Farber
COURSE OUTLINE
SESSION
TOPIC
CHAPTER/SECTION
1
Introduction to course, marking system, attendance policy,
philosophy, and office hours, and Chapter 1.
Chapter 1
2
Frequency, Distribution and Their Graphs
2.1
3
More Statistical Graphs and Displays
2.2
4
Measures of Central Tendency
2.3
5
Measures of Variation
2.4
6
Measures of Position
2.5
7
TEST # 1: Chapters 1 & 2
8
Correlation (No Hypothesis Testing)
Assign Correlation Project
9.1
9
Introduction to Probability: Fundamental Counting Principle
3.1
10
Multiplication Rule
3.2
11
Addition Rule
3.3
12
Counting – Permutations – Combinations
3.4
13
Introduction to probability distributions, Random Variables
(Discrete), Mean, Variance, Expected Value
4.1
14
Binomial Experiments; Mean and Variance for binomial
distributions
4.2
15
TEST # 2: Chapters 3 & 4
16
Introduction to Normal Distributions and the Standard Normal
Distribution
5.1
17
Normal Distributions: Finding Probabilities
5.2
18
Normal Distributions: Finding Values
5.3
19
Sampling Distributions and Central Limit Theorem
5.4
20
Normal Approximation to Binomial Distributions
5.5
21
TEST # 3: Chapter 5
22
Confidence Intervals for the Mean (Large Samples)
6.1
23
Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
7.1
24
Hypothesis Testing for the Mean (Large Samples)
7.2
25
Hypothesis Testing for the Mean (Small Samples)
7.3
26
Hypothesis Testing for Variances and Standard Deviation
7.5
27
TEST # 4: Chapters 6 & 7
28
Review for Final Exam
29
FINAL EXAM