Elementary Statistics

This course is designed to provide students with the basic statistical techniques commonly used in data collection, analysis and interpretation. Familiarity with such techniques is essential for any program of study and is vital for the nursing program . Topics include tabulation and presentation of data by charts and graphs; description of data using numerical measures: mean, median, mode, percentiles, variance and standard deviation; description of bivariate data by scatter diagram, correlation coefficient and regression line; intuitive development of probability for studying binomial and normal distributions; and applications to statistical inference such as estimation and tests of hypotheses.

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