To develop students' ability to model events occurring in nature in mathematical notation for future study; to acquaint students with how to describe populations and predict events when only samples are available; to illustrate how industry uses statistical models in the design and production of goods and services; to develop students' appreciation for the use of mathematical concepts such as calculus in the development of statistics; and to acquaint students with the rather short history of statistics, its recent growth in applications, and current development.

This course will investigate:

• Probability (Chapter 2)
• Random Variables and Probability Distributions (Chapter 3)
• Mathematical Expectation (Chapter 4)
• Discrete Probability Distributions (Chapter 5)
• Continuous Probability Distributions (Chapter 6)
• Sampling (Chapter 7)