STAT 380: Statistics & Applications

Explore the salary distribution of U.S. teachers using statistical analysis. Understand the probabilities of different salary brackets and evaluate a potential job offer in the context of nationwide data.

Discover the trends in car colors for North America in 2011. Break down the percentage distribution of various shades, from dominating whites to the less frequent greens. Understand the best visual techniques to represent this data, weighing the pros and cons of graphs.

Explore the complexities of two independent Poisson random variables, X1 and X2, with means ?1 = 2 and ?2 = 3. Understand the process of calculating specific event probabilities and the application of the Poisson formula. Key takeaways include the manipulation and interpretation of these statistical values.

Analyze the statistical assumptions made about high school students' ages, emphasizing the importance of understanding distributions before applying the Standard Normal Table.