Elementary Statistics with Probability, Summer  2009 (6/2- 7/9)
 Math 142-5040
 Diablo Valley College

Mandatory ONLINE orientation on Tuesday, 6/2, 4-6:00 pm
Instructor: Despina Prapavessi

Please verify that your computer meets the minimum system requirements for this course. The software we will use requires the following operating system and browser combinations:

With WINDOWS operating systems:

 You can use these browsers:
Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista™ Internet Explorer 6.0 (XP Only)
Internet Explorer 7.0
Firefox 2
Firefox 3
With MACINTOSH operating systems: You can use these browsers:
MacOSX 10.4, MacOSX 10.5 Safari 3.1 (Recommended)
Firefox 2
Firefox 3

To begin your work on this course, you must attend the mandatory online orientation meeting on

 Tuesday, June 2, 4pm - 6 pm

Click here for instructions on how to access the meeting.

Orientation Meeting Slides
This course is designed to introduce the student to the study of statistics and probability. Topics include descriptive statistics (organization of data, histograms, and measures of central tendency and spread), linear correlation and regression, design of experiments, introductory probability, random variables, the normal distribution and Student's t-distribution, and statistical inference, including confidence intervals and tests and significance.