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Columbus State Community College

Elementary Statistics, Stat 1350

 

Course Description (from the University): STAT 1350 is designed to acquaint students with statistical methods used in gathering and analyzing data. The course includes survey methods, graphical displays of data, descriptive statistics, the Normal distribution, correlation and linear regression, basic concepts in probability and simulation, sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem, confidence intervals, and significance testing.

Lecture: 3 hours Prerequisite: MATH 1030 or MATH 1050, minimum grade of “C”

 

Syllabus -- in Word format
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Important Dates
Exam I -- Thursday, June 12th review/review key/more review/key
Exam II/Midterm -- Tuesday, July 1st review/review key/more review
Exam III--  Tuesday, July 22nd  review/review key/more review/key
Final Exam -- Tuesday, August 5th 12 p.m. (noon) review
 

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My CSCC email: bmccall2@cscc.edu
Office Hours: MTWR 3:30-5:00 p.m.


 

Notes & Video Links

Chapter 10 & 11 notes
Chapter 12 notes
Chapter 13 notes
Chapter 14 & 15 notes
Chapter 17 & 18 notes
Chapter 21 notes
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Statistical Reasoning
Probability and Statistics
Statistics 2
Statistical Reasoning II

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Calculator Guides:

TI 84 Entering Data
TI 84 Box and Whisker Plots
TI 84 Frequency Histograms
TI 84 Descriptive Statistics
TI 84 Descriptive Statistics Grouped Data
TI 84 Discrete Probability Distribution
TI 84 Discrete Probability Distribution (With Graph)
TI 84 Binomial Experiments
TI 84 Poisson Probability
TI 84 Normal Distribution
TI 84 Determine x or z
TI 84 Confidence Intervals
TI 84 Hypothesis Testing
TI 84 Hypothesis Testing - two proportions
TI 84 Hypothesis Testing - Two Means Independent Samples
TI 84 Hypothesis Testing - Two Means Dependent Samples
TI 84 Contingency Tables
TI 84 Correlation - LinRegTTest

 

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Links!

PDF Graph Paper
Bad Graphs (Convention Speeches)
Visualizing Data Badly: 8 Examples
Correlation is not Causation: orginal article / handout
Presidents by State

 

 

 
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