PreDOE Online Course Outline (3-6 hours, 0.6 CEU's)

Section 1: PreDOE Information Page

· How to get help

· Final assessment test

Section 2: Statistical Thinking & Data Description (1 hour)

· Statistical thinking

· Causes of variation—common & special causes

· Descriptive statistics—mean, mode & median

· Measuring variation—variance & standard deviation

Section 3: Normal Distribution & Central Limit Theorem (1.5 hours)

· Description of normal distribution

· Z-scores & probability calculations

· Testing for normality—histogram vs. normal probability paper

· Central limit theorem

Section 4: Hypothesis Testing (1.5 hours)

· Hypothesis testing concepts

· Proposal

· Decision criteria—Type I (alpha) vs. Type II (beta) errors

· Data collection

· Drawing conclusions

Section 5: t-Testing (1.5 hours)

· t-testing concepts

· Using a one-tailed t-table

· Using a t-table vs. statistical software

Section 6: Analysis of Variance (1 hour)

· Analysis of variance (F-testing)

· Sums of squares

· Degrees of freedom

· F-value

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