Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Department of Mathematics

Course Syllabus

 

Course Number: Math 217

 

Course Title: Probability and Statistics

 

Credits: 3 semester hours

 

Prerequisites: none

 

Textbook: The Basic Practice of Statistics, Third edition.

by David S. Moore

W.H. Freeman and Company

 

Revised:  May 2005

 

Catalog Description: (For non-Math majors) Frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, variation, elementary probability, sampling, estimation, testing hypotheses, correlation, and regression; emphasis on applications as opposed to theoretical development of topics.

 

Course Outline/Recommended Time Schedule:

 

Part I    Exploring Data

 

            Chapter 1         Picturing Distributions With Graphs                               (2 hours)

            Chapter 2         Describing Distributions With Numbers                         (3 hours)

            Chapter 3         The Normal Distributions                                              (3 hours)

            Chapter 4         Scatterplots and Correlation                                          (3 hours)

            Chapter 5         Regression                                                                    (3 hours)
           Chapter 6         Two-way Tables                                                          (optional)

 

Part II  From Exploration to Inference

 

Chapter 7      Producing Data: Sampling                                                (1.5 hours)

Chapter 8      Producing Data: Experiments                                           (1.5 hours)

Chapter 9         Introducing Probability                                                  (2 hours)

Chapter 10       Sampling Distributions                                       (1 hour)

Chapter 13       Confidence Intervals                                                     (2 hours)

Chapter 14       Test of Significance                                                       (2 hours)

Chapter 15    Inference in Practice                                                        (1.5 hours)

 

Part III Inference about Variables

Chapter 16       Inference about a population mean                                (1.5 hours)

Chapter 17       Two-Sample Problems                                                 (1.5 hours)

Chapter 18       Inference about a population proportion                        (1.5 hours)

Chapter 19       Comparing Two Proportions                                         (1.5 hours)

Chapter 20       Two Categorical Variables:  The Chi-Square Test         (optional)

Chapter 21       Inference for Regression                                               (optional)

Chapter 22       One Way Analysis of Variance                         (optional)

 

Remaining hours for tests, optional items, more time for listed topics: 10.5 hours

 

alternate texts:

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, Second Edition by Allan J. Rossman and

Beth L. Chance, Key College Publishing.