Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Department of Mathematics

Course Syllabus

Course Number: Math 217

Course Title: Probability and Statistics

Credits: 3 semester hours

Prerequisites: none

Textbook: The Basic Practice of Statistics, Third edition.

by David S. Moore

W.H. Freeman and Company

Revised: May 2005

Catalog Description: (For non-Math majors) Frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, variation, elementary probability, sampling, estimation, testing hypotheses, correlation, and regression; emphasis on applications as opposed to theoretical development of topics.

Course Outline/Recommended Time Schedule:

Part I Exploring Data

Chapter 1 Picturing Distributions With Graphs (2 hours)

Chapter 2 Describing Distributions With Numbers (3 hours)

Chapter 3 The Normal Distributions (3 hours)

Chapter 4 Scatterplots and Correlation (3 hours)

Chapter 5 Regression (3 hours)
Chapter 6 Two-way Tables (optional)

Part II From Exploration to Inference

Chapter 7 Producing Data: Sampling (1.5 hours)

Chapter 8 Producing Data: Experiments (1.5 hours)

Chapter 9 Introducing Probability (2 hours)

Chapter 10 Sampling Distributions (1 hour)

Chapter 13 Confidence Intervals (2 hours)

Chapter 14 Test of Significance (2 hours)

Chapter 15 Inference in Practice (1.5 hours)

Part III Inference about Variables

Chapter 16 Inference about a population mean (1.5 hours)

Chapter 17 Two-Sample Problems (1.5 hours)

Chapter 18 Inference about a population proportion (1.5 hours)

Chapter 19 Comparing Two Proportions (1.5 hours)

Chapter 20 Two Categorical Variables: The Chi-Square Test (optional)

Chapter 21 Inference for Regression (optional)

Chapter 22 One Way Analysis of Variance (optional)

Remaining hours for tests, optional items, more time for listed topics: 10.5 hours

alternate texts:

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, Second Edition by Allan J. Rossman and

Beth L. Chance, Key College Publishing.