Course Information

• Course Number : STAT 250
• Course Title: Introductory Statistics I
• Semester: Spring 2013
• Class Day/Time: Internet
• Instructor: Susan Surina Chimiak
• Textbook: Introduction to the Practice of STATISTICS, Seventh Edition, Extended Version, Moore/McCabe/Craig,
  W. H. Freeman and Company Freeman Website
• Catalog Info: STAT 250

My Experience With This Course

STAT 250, as the course name indicates, is an introductory course in Statistics. For me, this was a review class since I had studied statistics when I was in college previously.

This was an online class. The majority of the course content was delivered via the textbook website where practice problems, homework assignments and quizzes were available. The textbook information was supplemented by the professor’s instructional videos (Available here: surina YouTube Channel ) and assignments using MINITAB software: MINITAB Website

Throughout the semester there were significant technical issues with the textbook website. This caused frustration for me and, judging from comments posted in the on-line discussion board, for others in the class as well.

Topics covered in the class were::

• graphical displays for distributions
• distribution measures of center and spread
• the Normal distribution
• sampling distributions
• confidence intervals (for means and proportions)
• hypothesis testing (for means and proportions)

This class was a good review, and I enjoyed learning how to use a new statistical software product (MINITAB).