Topics in Statistics

Topics covered within descriptive statistics include construction of frequency distributions, histograms, stem-leaf displays, calculating central tendencies, standard deviations, percentiles and quartiles, box-and whisker displays, location of outliers, linear regression and correlation analysis for bivariate data. Probability topics include elementary probability (use of and/or, complements, conditional, mutually exclusive and independent), binomial probability (graphing distributions, finding probabilities and calculating means and standard deviations), normal distributions, Chebyshev's theorem and the empirical rule. For inferential statistics, topics covered include hypothesis testing (both classical and p-value testing) and estimating confidence intervals for quantitative and qualitative data (both large and small groups), dependent samples and independent samples, chi-square tests and ANOVA.