Statistics by Example

Course Number: STA 1013

Place: Huge Classroom Building (HCB), Room 205 (Section 11) or 207 (Section 7)

Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM (Section 11) or 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM (Section 7)

Syllabus: Section 7, Section 11

Instructor Name: Ajay Gupta E-mail: ajgupta@stat.fsu.edu Office: Oceanography and Statistics Building (OSB), Room 104F Walk-In Office Hours: in Carothers (MCB) 315 computer lab, in cubicles on right side Monday, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Tuesday, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM Thursday, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

If you are enrolled in this class, please visit the Statistics by Example (STA 1013) section of the Blackboard website. The Blackboard site has more information because it is limited to those enrolled in the course.

Course Information

This course will provide students a background on common applied statistical techniques for problem-solving in business and research settings. It will focus on making sure that students know what techniques are available, what the point of these techniques is, when to use them, and how to tell what the results mean for a business or research problem. Some calculation will be involved, but less than in other applied statistics classes.

At the end of this course, a student should be able to do the following:
• Explain what a statistic is, what a parameter is, and what these have to do with the problem for various situations on the job
• Explain what a probability distribution is and how it relates to specific situations on the job
• Apply proper techniques for creating samples and research studies
• Use summary statistics and graphs to draw conclusions about data
• Calculate common statistics that describe the center and variation of data
• Produce and interpret regression lines
• Calculate and interpret confidence intervals for the averages and proportions of unknown quantities
• Set up, calculate, and interpret hypothesis tests