STA 2023 - Elementary Statistics

Mathematics Department

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2024 (640)

Requisites

Prerequisite Appropriate score on the SPC mathematics placement test or
Prerequisite Completion of required developmental education coursework

Course Description

In this course, students will utilize descriptive and inferential statistical methods in contextual situations, using technology as appropriate. The course is designed to increase problem-solving abilities and data interpretation through practical applications of statistical concepts. This course is appropriate for students in a wide range of disciplines and programs. State Core Course Description (State Rule 6A-14.0303). This course satisfies the Mathematics General Education Core. (Note: Credit is only given for STA 2023 or STA 2023H, but not both.)

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. *Students will visualize and summarize data using descriptive statistics by:
    1. developing basic statistical literacy.
    2. using samples to make inferences about populations.
    3. identifying the most commonly used data collection techniques and sampling methods.
    4. constructing and interpreting graphical displays of data.
    5. calculating and interpreting measures of central tendency, dispersion, and relative standing.
  2. *Students will apply basic probability concepts to draw reasonable conclusions by:
    1. employing basic terminology of probability.
    2. applying basic rules of probability.
    3. constructing a sample space to find probabilities of a given simple or compound event.
    4. calculating probabilities of simple and compound events.
  3. *Students will employ concepts of random variables, sampling distributions, and central limit theorem to analyze and interpret representations of data by:
    1. identifying a random variable as being discrete or continuous.
    2. calculating probabilities of given events which follow binomial and normal distributions.
    3. applying the Central Limit Theorem.
  4. *Students will choose an appropriate method of inferential statistics, including confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, to make broader decisions based on sample data.
  5. *Students will model linear relationships between quantitative variables using correlation and linear regression.
*Major Learning Outcome is set by and in compliance with DOE State Rule 6A-14.0303.

Criteria Performance Standard

The student will have to successfully complete 70% of these objectives on written tests in order to pass the course with a grade of C or better. When presented with a univariate decision-making problem regarding the mean, the student will be able to employ the appropriate hypothesis test with 70% accuracy (use of technology is permitted). Upon completion, the student will be able to explain his/her conclusion with 70% accuracy. Accuracy of values to at least two decimal places is expected.

History of Changes

Revised 8/84 DBT 11/20/90 Effective Session 19911 3 YR C&I Review 8/94 DBT 5/16/95 Effective Session 19951 SCNS Change from STA 1023 1/30/96 Eff 19961; C&I 3/26/96; DBT 4/17/96 Effective Session 19961 C&I 3/17/98; DBT 4/20/98 Effective Session 19981 Online/Teleweb 19981 C&I 10/23/01, BOT 11/20/01 Effective yrtr 20021 (Sess I, 2002). 2005 3-Year Review. Added exclusion 10/29/09; eff20091. C&I Approval: 06/22/2010, BOT Approval: 08/17/2010, Effective Term: Summer 2014 (485). C&I Approval: 04/24/2015, BOT Approval: 06/16/2015, Effective Term: Spring 2016 (510). C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Summer 2019 (560).
C&I Approval: 02/17/2024, BOT Approval: 03/19/2024, Effective Term: Fall 2024 (640)

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