This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include the measures of central tendency, standard deviation, combinations and permutations, probability, sampling, and various distributions. Emphasis is on applications of statistical concepts

Conditional Probability and the Rules of Probability

• Understand independence and conditional probability and use them to interpret data
• Use the rules of probability to compute probabilities of compound events in a uniform probability model

Using Probability to Make Decisions

• Calculate expected values and use them to solve problems
• Use probability to evaluate outcomes of decisions