MATH 280 - Introductory Statistics

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: MATH 120 or MATH 220
Description: This course covers elementary topics from the probability and statistics of both discrete and continuous random variables. Topics include independence and dependence, mean, variance and expectation, and distributions of random variables. Statistics is applied to hypothesis testing. This course provides the student with a broad, general knowledge and understanding of statistics. The emphasis of this course is on the utility and practical application of statistics rather than on the mathematical derivation of statistical principles. Offered Each semester, annually.