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Polls and Statistics: Getting Started

This guide focuses on polling results for news, political, social, economic, and cultural issues and trends, as well as sources of hard statistical data for national and international demographics, social, economic and political issues.

Introduction to Scientific Polling

UCNJ Courses

UCNJ Mathematics Departments offers Statistic courses. Two Statistic courses are linked below.

Elementary Statistics (MAT 127) "...Topics covered include measures of central tendency and dispersion, sampling and probability distributions, including binomial, normal, and others. Practical problems involving correlation, linear regression, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing."

 

Probability and Statistics (MAT-248)  "This course introduces the essentials of probability theory and elementary statistics. Topics include an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics; sample space and events, probability axioms, and counting techniques; conditional probability and independence, and Bayes' Theorem; discrete random variables, distribution functions and moments, and Binomial and Poisson Distributions; continuous random variables, densities and moments, normal, gamma, and exponential distributions unions; the Central Limit Theorem; confidence intervals; hypothesis and p-values; regression and correlation.

 

 

Crash Course in Statistics

Entertaining 3 minute video that introduces the viewer to statistics.

UCNJ LibGuides at Union College