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STA 6166 Statistical Methods in Research I (Distance Learning)

Textbook

The main textbook used in the last few semesters is McClave, J.T. and Sincich, T. 2009. Statistics, 11th Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-206951-9; however, you should check here for updates.

OUTLINE OF TOPICS :

• Statistics, Data, and Statistical Thinking
• Methods for Describing Sets of Data / Probability
• Discrete and Continuous Random Variables
• Sampling Distributions
• Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Confidence Intervals
• Inferences Based on a Single Sample: Hypothesis
• Inferences Based on a Two Samples: Confidence Intervals
• Inferences Based on a Two Samples: Hypothesis
• Analysis of Variance: Basics
• Analysis of Variance: Design of Experiments
• Simple Linear Regression
• Multiple Linear Regression
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Nonparametric Statistics *
• Logistic Regression *

* Time permitting