MATH 1442

SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE

 

Prerequisites:

Successful completion of MATH 1314 or MATH 1324 or consent of the instructor.

 

Purpose of Course:

This course is an introduction to the techniques of collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of numerical data.  Application of correlation methods, analysis of variance, dispersion, sampling, quality control, reliability and mathematical models.

 

Textbook: 

Elementary Statistics - Using Excel, 3rd Edition, by Triola.

 

Lab:  

This course will require lab time on the computer. 

 

Attendance:

Attendance and effort are the most important activities for success in this course.  Records of your attendance will be maintained.  IWhenever absences become excessive and, in the instructor’s opinion, minimum course objectives cannot be met, the instructor may administratively withdraw you from the course with a grade of X or F.  Refer to the General Catalog under Class Attendance and Drops & Withdrawals.

 

Video Tapes:

Video tapes for many topics in this course are available in the Math Department AVT Lab, Room M-116, or in building 2 at the Reese campus.  You may check out the tapes for use at home or you may duplicate them with the equipment available in M-116.  You must furnish the blank tape.