AP Statistics is a 36-week Advanced Placement course and is the equivalent of a two-semester, non-calculus-based introductory college-level course. It is designed to comply with College Board recommendations for preparing students for an AP Exam in Statistics.
Nearly every day we hear the results from another poll or study conducted by a politician, a health care organization, or a business. How do researchers arrive at these results? How do you know the results are valid? Studying statistics will help you answer these questions and learn about the art of drawing conclusions from imperfect data. Statistics focuses on the uncertainties and compromises of the real world and plays an important role in many fields, including medicine, business, engineering, sociology, political science, economics, and geography.
Apex Learning AP Statistics gives students hands-on experience collecting, analyzing, graphing, and interpreting real-world data. Through online discussions and assignments, students will develop skills in effectively designing and analyzing research studies by reviewing and evaluating real research examples that affect their daily lives.
Course Outline| Semester 1 Unit 1: Describing Data Lesson 1: What Is Statistics? Lesson 2: Displaying Distributions with Graphs Lesson 3: Describing Distributions Using Numbers Lesson 4: Five-Number Summaries Lesson 5: More on Describing Distributions Unit 2: The Normal Distribution Lesson 1: Introduction to the Normal Distribution Lesson 2: Standardized Scores Lesson 3: Determining If a Data Set Is Normal Unit 3: Bivariate Data: Regression Analysis & Two-Way Tables Lesson 1: Introduction to Bivariate Data Lesson 2: The Least-Squares Regression Line Lesson 3: The Correlation Coefficient Lesson 4: Influential Points & Outliers Lesson 5: Transformations to Achieve Linearity Lesson 6: Categorical Bivariate Data: Two-Way Tables Unit 4: Planning a Study Lesson 1: Methods of Data Collection - Experiments & Studies Lesson 2: Methods of Data Collection - Surveys Unit 5: Probability Lesson 1: What Is Probability? Lesson 2: Introduction to the Basic Rules of Probability Lesson 3: More on Conditional Probabilities & the Probabilities of Combined Events Lesson 4: Probability Distributions Lesson 5: Means & Variances of Random Variables |
Semester 2 Unit 6: Binomial Situations & Sampling Distributions Lesson 1: Introduction to Inferential Statistics Lesson 2: Binomial Distributions Lesson 3: Geometric Distribution Lesson 4: Sampling Distributions: Means & Proportions Unit 7: Introduction to Inference: Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing Lesson 1: Confidence Intervals for Means Lesson 2: Statistical Significance & P-Value Lesson 3: Significance & Hypothesis Testing: Means Lesson 4: Errors in Hypothesis Testing Unit 8: Distribution for Means Lesson 1: Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing for a Single Mean Lesson 2: Confidence Intervals for the Difference between Two Means Lesson 3: Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Tests for Two Independent Samples Unit 9: Inference for Proportions Lesson 1: Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Tests for a Single Population Proportion Lesson 2: The Difference between Two Proportions Unit 10: Inference for One- & Two-Way Tables & for Least-Squares Lines Lesson 1: One-Way Tables: Chi-Square for Goodness-of-Fit Lesson 2: Two-Way Tables: Chi-Square for Association or Independence Lesson 3: Inference for the Least-Squares Line Unit 11: Preparing for the AP Exam |