Elementary Statistics

Placement Level: Eligibility for STAT-10 as determined by the Chaffey College placement process as of March 2019, which will result in more students being able to enroll directly in STAT-10, or completion of MATH-542. Advisory: Concurrent enrollment in STAT-510 (previously STAT-610). The use of probability techniques, hypothesis testing, and predictive techniques to facilitate decision-making. Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include: frequency distribution, measures of variation and central tendency, discrete and continuous random variables and probability distributions, sampling distributions, interval estimations of population parameters, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, chi square and t-test analysis, and linear regression and correlation. Application of technology for statistical analysis including the interpretation of the relevance of statistical findings. Applications using data from various disciplines such as: business, physical sciences, social sciences, psychology, life science, health science, and education. A specific statistical graphing & computing utility is required. See instructor before acquiring. May be offered as an Honors course. The Math department strongly recommends that any student wanting or needing extra support for this course to consider enrolling in STAT-610 to be taken concurrently with STAT-10. There is a 1 hour supplemental learning requirement that can be satisfied through the success centers. (C-ID MATH 110) Transfer: CSU; UC credit limitations