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Dec 15, 2025
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MTH 2450 - Business Statistics and Analytics4 lecture hours 0 lab hours 4 credits Course Description Managerial decisions frequently involve some level of uncertainty. This course is designed to acquaint students with probabilistic and statistical methods that can be used in decision-making. Topics include probability, random variables, probability distributions, tests of hypotheses, experimental designs, and linear regressions. Prereq: MTH 1050 or MTH 1080 or placement into MTH 2450 (quarter system prereq: MA 120 or placement into MTH 2450) Note: Only one of MTH 2430 , MTH 2450, and MTH 2480 can be used to meet a degree requirement unless approved by the program director. Students with credit for MTH 2410 or IND 2030 should not register for this course. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO Requirement: Think Critically Course Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply basic probability concepts and counting techniques
- Formulate events from statements in various applications
- Apply Venn diagrams to identify sets or compute probability of events
- Evaluate conditional probability and implement multiplication rule
- Apply Bayes’ Theorem
- Evaluate measures of central tendency and dispersion of a set of observations
- Recognize and utilize binomial and normal distributions
- Discern joint distributions of random variables
- Differentiate dependent random variables from independent random variables
- Visualize and identify outliers or any anomaly in data
- Provide point estimation for sample mean and sample variance, and interval estimation for population mean and population proportion
- Interpret reported statistics
- Distinguish type I and type II errors and provide examples
- Conduct hypothesis tests about one population mean, population proportion, and population variance
- Perform hypothesis tests about difference of two parameters
- Distinguish between linear relationship, nonlinear relationship, and no relationship for a sample of observations
- Compute and interpret Pearson’s correlation coefficient
- Construct simple linear regression from sample points
- Validate the fit of regressions
Prerequisites by Topic
- Evaluation of algebraic formulas
Course Topics
- Multiplication rules and Bayes’ theorem
- Independence of events
- Discrete random variables and continuous random variables
- Probability distributions
- Measures of central tendency and dispersion
- One-sample hypothesis testing and statistical inference
- Two-sample hypothesis testing and statistical inference
- Linear regressions
- Analysis of variance (if time permits)
Coordinator Dr. Yu-Sin Chang
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