AP Statistics
Interested in taking the course? Here are some handy websites:
AP Statistics Course Overview from College Board (has areas of college study using Stats):
Blog post on Ten Awesome reasons why Statistics is important
GREAT conversation with one of Mr. DeMello's favorites from the College Board
Please remember to tell your guidance counselor you want to take the class!
Four Major Topics of Study:
Exploratory Data Analysis:
Graphical Displays
Mean, Median, Standard Deviation
Normal Models
Correlation and Linear Regression
Data Collection:
Simulation
Surveys
Bias
Experiments
Probability
Sample Spaces
Independent v. Disjoint Events
Discrete Random Variables
Binomial and Geometric Models
Statistical Inference
Sampling Distributions
Confidence Intervals
Hypothesis Tests
Chi-Squared Testing
Probability Mr. DeMello will reference The Great Catsby in class: 0.6.
A Complete List of Colleges which accept AP Statistics for credit:
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