AP/CHS Statistics

This class will prepare the student to take the AP Statistics exam in May, as well as completing the requirements for the College-in-High-School program. This course teaches methods of descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include data collection and description, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, the analysis of variance and contingency tables. Students will learn how to use a statistical computer package. Topics include: Introduction; Descriptive Statistics; Association and Regression; Causation and Evidence; Probability: Random variables and their distributions; Distribution of sample mean from random samples; Confidence intervals for means (known standard deviation) and proportions in one sample; Tests of hypotheses about means (known standard deviation) and proportions in one sample; and one-sample, paired-sample and two-sample t-tests.

Materials and resources used throughout this course may include but are not limited to the materials and resources listed here. Materials and resources used during this course are available to parents and students by using student login information on a district-issued iPad.