MATH 119 - Chance

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Western New England University

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Description:

This course focuses on quantitative literacy, using current events and how these events are reported in the media to examine fundamental statistical and probabilistic concepts. The goal of this course is to make students more informed, critical, readers of current news stories, and to promote a deeper understanding of the probability and statistics that they will be exposed to in dayto- day life. Potential current event topics include interpreting polls (including margin of error), sports statistics, scoring streaks, lotteries and randomness, medical research, false positives, economic indicators, coincidences, statistics in the courtroom, academic testing, the census, risk assessment, and environmental news. To understand these topics fully, students may be exposed to graphical descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, probability, measures of central tendency and dispersion, basic combinatorics, hypothesis testing, conditional probability, chi-squared test, binomial distributions, sampling, correlation, linear regression, and more. Offered on demand. 3 cr.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wne.edu

Phone Number:

(413) 782-3111

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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