<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/catalog/courses/general-education/mat-220.html" dsn="courses"><course-code>MAT 220</course-code><course-title>Introduction to Statistics</course-title><delivery>Distance (Online Didactic Instruction)</delivery><credits>3 (Didactic Only)</credits><contact-hours>45</contact-hours><outside-prep>An average of three (3) hours per week for every didactic credit hour</outside-prep><sem-offered>Fall, Spring, Summer (Subject to Enrollment)</sem-offered><prerequisites>MAT 100 or equivalent</prerequisites><corequisites>None</corequisites><requisites>None</requisites><description>In this course, learners will examine the properties behind the basic
						concepts of probability and statistics and focus on applications of
						statistical knowledge. Learners will learn how statistics and probability
						work together. The subject of statistics involves the study of methods for
						collecting, summarizing, and interpreting data. Learners will learn how
						to understand the basics of drawing statistical conclusions. This course
						will begin with descriptive statistics and the foundation of statistics, then
						move to probability and random distributions, the latter of which enables
						statisticians to work with several aspects of random events and their applications. Finally, learners will examine several ways to investigate
						the relationships between various characteristics of data.</description><category>Foundational</category></item>