Nov 27, 2024  
2015-2016 Evening, Weekend, and Online Academic Catalog 
    
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MAT 150 - Statistics for Everyday Life

Semester Hours: 3
A course in statistical literacy intended for those students whose majors or minors do not require MAT 220 - Probability and Statistics . The topics covered include: sampling, confidence statements and margin of error, opinion polls, experiment design, measurements of central tendency, measurements of variability, the normal distribution, two-way tables, scatter plots and correlation, association and causation, graphical display of data, psychological influences on personal probability, the discrepancy between our intuitive notion of probabilities and their relative frequency interpretation.

Pre-requisites: GEN 102 - Mathematics Workshop  or ACT score at or above 20.



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