Syllabus

    STA 3123: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS II    

Revised January 4, 2006

Prerequisite:   STA 2122

Terms Offered: Fall, Spring and Summer

Text: Statistics, 10th Edition, by James T. McClave and Terry Sincich.

 

1.       STATISTICAL INFERENCE: Single Sample (Sections 7.1 - 7.4, 8.1 - 8.5)

Review hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for m and p.  Define and interpret p-values.

 

 

  1. STATISTICAL SOFTWARE

 

Introduce MINITAB, SPSS, SAS or a similar package as a tool for statistical analysis.
Use it throughout this course for computation.

 

 

  1. STATISTICAL INFERENCE: Two Samples (Sections 9.1-9.4 and 9.6)

 

Introduce large sample inference procedures for m1 - m2 and p1 - p2; statistical inference for m1 - m2 and mD = m1- m2, for both independent samples and paired samples, using the t-distribution; and the F-test for s21 = s 22.

 

 

  1. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (Chapter 10)

 

The topics are completely randomized design, randomized block design, two-way analysis of variance model with and without interaction components, and pairwise comparison of means for each design.

 

 

  1. SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION AND CORRELATION (Chapter 11)

 

The topics include probabilistic models and the method of least squares. Point estimates of the variance of the random error component, the slope of the regression line, the correlation coefficient and the coefficient of determination are given. Statistical inference procedures are presented for the slope of the regression line, the correlation coefficient, the mean value of Y at a given level of X and a new value of Y at a given level of X.

 

 

 

  1. ANALYSIS OF COUNT DATA (Chapter 13)

 

The topics are the multinomial distribution and the Chi-square goodness of fit test for one-dimensional count data. Contingency tables for two categorical variables are used to test for the independence of the two variables.

 

 

  1. NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL INFERENCE (Chapter 14)

 

The topics are Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, Kruskal-Wallis H-Test, Friedman's Fr-Test and Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient.