MATH 1342

Chapter 4 of Probability and Counting Rules covers the Sample Space and Event, Probability Basics, Basic Properties, Mutually Exclusive Events, Probability Rules, Two Events and Venn Diagram, Contingency Tables, Joint and Marginal Probabilities, Conditional Probability, Multiplication Rule, Counting Rules (Combinatorics), and Binomial Expansion using Pascal's Triangle. An example is given to calculate the probability of a college student not getting the flu if they haven't had a flu shot.

Elementary statistics is the study of variables, populations, samples, and data analysis techniques. Descriptive statistics involves collecting, organizing, summarizing, and presenting data, while inferential statistics involves generalizing from samples to populations, performing estimations and hypothesis testing, determining relationships between variables, and making predictions. Variables can be qualitative or quantitative. Qualitative variables have distinct categories, while quantitati...