Course Homepage: (Past Pages: Spring 2006 )

Usually Offered: Fall and Spring Semesters

SCCC 312A is open only to students in the South Carolina Honors College. Its bulletin description is left general in order to permit it to answer the specific needs of the students in the college. For information on the current offering of this course, use the above link.

Purpose: To give students from throughout the university a non-calculus based introduction to the application of modern statistical methods including descriptive and inferential statistics. To show students that statistics is an important research tool. Minitab statistical software is used throughout the course.

Current Textbooks: Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, 1/E, by Agresti and Franklin, Pearson Education, Inc, 2007. Statistics: Learning by Doing, by Spurrier, Edwards, and Thombs, Whittier Publications, 1999.  

Contact Faculty: Xianzheng Huang
(Last Updated: July 11, 2008)