Departmental Syllabus

Texts: 

Text/CD-ROM are available now from the Columbus State University Book Store and  from Amazon.com Specify ISBN 0-7167-3772-8 for the textbook and CD-ROM packaged together.  CD & textbook are more expensive when sold separately.) Amazon.com's price was $73.95 on November 16th, 1999.  Much higher now.  For the best price for the package, do a search using the ISBN number(0716737728) at http://isbn.nu/

The Active Practice of Statistics and ActivStats package has a new ISBN due to the updated ActivStats CD due out in July, 2001. The new isbn for
the package is 0716742888.  Right now (June 2001) the cheapest price for this package is $102.00.

  • ActivStats(CD-ROM)

    • ActivStats: 2000/2001 Release

    • Paul Velleman, Cornell University 

    • Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap format

    • ISBN 0-201-31068-6

    • Addison-Wesley 

  • Active Practice of Statistics

    • A text for multimedia learning

    • David S. Moore

    • ISBN 0-7167-3140-1

    • 1998, W. H. Freeman

    • For a copy of Active Practice of Statistics WITHOUT THE ACTIVSTATS CD:

 

 

 

Alternative. A few good students have used my web site plus the textbook used in the lecture class instead of purchasing the above texts.  The text used in lecture class may be purchased from the CSU bookstore: David Moore, Basic Practice of Statistics, 2nd Edition, W.H. Freeman.  Some students have really liked the ActivStats CD-ROM.  I think that the ActivStats CD-ROM is great, but some students said it was useless.  The advantage of using the same text as the lecture class is that if you really do not like the internet class you can switch to a lecture class without purchasing another text.

 

Course Description

 MATH 1127. Introductory Statistics (3-0-3) Prerequisite: High School Algebra 2 or its equivalent. Survey of modern statistical methods applicable to behavioral, biological, health and managerial sciences, and education. Organization and analysis of data, probability distributions, sampling distributions, point  estimation, confidence interval, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis.

ADA Statement 

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Policy & Procedure for Course Withdrawal

Students wishing to drop a course after the last official day of schedule change must officially withdraw from the course. A  withdrawal form must be submitted to the Office of the Registrar. Prior to the W grade deadline as published in the Schedule of Courses, a grade of W will be assigned by the registrar unless a grade of WF has already been assigned by the instructor for excessive absences. A grade of WF will be assigned when a withdrawal form is received in the Office of the Registrar after the deadline. A student may appeal the assignment of a WF grade by submitting to the registrar documentation of non-academic hardship. Students may not withdraw from a required developmental studies course with a grade of W while remaining in degree level courses. To remain in degree level courses, the grade in the developmental studies course must be a WF and would be considered a developmental studies attempt. Refer to the Schedule of Courses book for specific dates and additional information regarding course withdrawal.

Topics

  • Understanding Data 

    • Understanding Distributions 

      • Displaying Distributions with Graphs 

      • Describing Distributions with Numbers

      • The Normal Distributions

    • Examining Relationships 

      • Scatterplots 

      • Correlation 

      • Least-Squares Regression

      • Interpreting Correlation and Regression (Read)

    • Producing Data 

      • Designing Samples

      • Designing Experiments

  • Understanding Inference 

    • Sampling Distributions and Probability

      • Sampling Distributions

      • Probability Distributions (Optional)

      • Sample Proportions 

      • The Binomial Distributions 

      • Sample Means

    • Introduction to Inference 

      • Estimating with Confidence

      • Tests of Significance 

      • Using Significance Tests

      • Inference as Decision (Optional)

    • Inference for Distributions

      • Inference for the Mean of a Population 

      • Comparing Two Means

    • Inference for Proportions 

      • Inference for a Single Proportion

      • Comparing Two Proportions 

  • Topics in Inference (Optional)

    • Inference for Two-Way Tables (Chi-squared )

    • Inference for Regression 

 

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