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MTH/218

Statistics II

Course level: Undergraduate

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General Education

Online

Format

$1,194

Estimated Tuition

3 credits

Total credits

5 weeks

Course length

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Students apply elementary probability theory, descriptive and inferential statistics, and reasoning to real-world situations. The course embeds foundational skill into topics including probability, statistics, and reasoning.

Prerequisites

  • MTH/217 – Statistics I OR
  • one college-level statistics course, OR 
  • one college-level course that primarily included topics of central tendency and description of data

Required materials

The materials required for this course are covered in your resource fees.

Please Note: Attendance and participation are mandatory in all University courses, and specific requirements may differ by course. If attendance requirements are not met, a student may be removed from the course. Please review the Course Attendance Policy in the Catalog for more information.

University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses. While widely available, not all programs are available to residents of all states. Please check with a University Enrollment Representative.

Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.

  • Explain the purpose of sampling distributions.
  • Explain how sampling error affects the need for sampling distributions.
  • Calculate the mean and standard deviation of a variable given mean and standard deviation of a population.
  • Apply the central limit theorem.
  • Determine the sampling distribution of the sample mean.

  • Identify quantities as parameters or statistics.
  • Define the given population and sample.
  • Calculate confidence intervals including margins of error for means.
  • Calculate the required sample size to estimate a population mean.

  • Graph linear equations.
  • Calculate the slope and intercepts of a line.
  • Interpret the slope and intercepts of a line.
  • Determine when using a regression line is appropriate.
  • Calculate the correlation coefficient for a set of paired data.
  • Interpret the correlation coefficient for a set of paired data.
  • Use technology to graph data, create a trend line, and calculate the equation of the trend line.

  • Analyze how confidence intervals relate to hypothesis testing.
  • Use the P-value approach to test a hypothesis.
  • Perform the five steps in hypothesis testing with one- and two-tailed z-tests.
  • Perform the five steps in hypothesis testing with one- and two-tailed t-tests.
  • Discuss possible type 1 and type 2 errors in hypothesis testing.

Applications

  • Use statistics to analyze application problems.

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