COURSE NAME: Introduction to Probability and Statistics

SCHOOL DISTRICT: Columbia High School (East Greenbush)

INSTRUCTOR: Nancy VanOort

Full Year

MAXIMUM TOTAL CLASS ENROLLMENT -Total all sites: 30

COURSE PREREQUISITES: Passing grade in Algebra 2 with Trigonometry - R course

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION / OUTLINE: This one-year course will introduce students to probability and
statistical concepts and models that are most commonly used in real world analytical work. Applications will
come from a variety of areas.

Topics would include, but are not limited to, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and
dispersion, linear regression and correlation, sampling techniques and design of experiments, basic probability
concepts, discrete and continuous probability distributions, the central limit theorem, sampling technology for
computations and analysis.

Students may receive four college credits from Hudson Valley Community College for MATH 135 Elementary
Statistics (spring semester).

OTHER NOTES / MISCELLANEOUS:

FOR COLLEGE CREDIT COURSES ONLY:

SPONSORING COLLEGE: Hudson Valley Community College

NUMBER OF CREDITS AVAILABLE: 4

APPROXIMATE TUITION FEE (PER CREDIT): $50 as of 11/2013

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