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2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MA 141 Elementary Statistics

This course is an introduction to basic statistical techniques and their applications to the sciences, social sciences and business administration. It includes the collection and presentation of data, measures of central tendency and variability, probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, and introduction to analysis of variance. Students learn to use common computer packages in statistics.

Prerequisite: MA 100  or placement exam.