Statistics, Stat 140

· Summarize data using measures of central tendency, such as the mean, median, mode, and

midrange.

· Describe data, using measures of variation, such as range, variance, and standard deviation.

· Identify the position of a data value in a data set using percentile, deciles, and quartiles.

· Use the techniques of exploratory data analysis including hoxplots and five number summaries

to discover various aspects of data.

· Determine sample spaces and find the probability of an event.

· Find the conditional probability of an event.

· Find the probability of an event using the counting rules.

· Construct a probability distribution for a random variable.

· Find the mean, variance, standard deviation, and expected value for a discrete random variable.

· Find the mean, variance, and standard deviation for the variable of a binomial distribution.

· Identify the properties of a normal distribution.

· Find the area under the standard normal distribution, given z values.

· Draw a scatter plot for a set of ordered pairs.

· Compute the correlation coefficient.

· Compute the standard error of the estimate and compute the equation of the regression line.