statistics

I need a math, I'm going to have to take stats for my mba so I might as well have some background and take it as an undergraduate.
ok... so I decided to dive into it and teach myself statistics...
dante has a stats test... I already booked it and I'm taking it next week...
the problem: I don't think I'm going to pass! I'm going to have a friend tutor me this week... but my hopes aren't high at all.
If I fail-- I prob will -- I want to take a basic statistic course online.
any ideas?

 

Check your local library to see if they have a statistics course DVD or VCR. My local library has the DVD used by local CCs for a statistics telecourse.

Coastline CC offers a 4-unit statistics course
http://dl.coastline.edu/coursewebsites/math.cfm
Low cost if you are a California resident.

 

Netflix has a couple of Statistics DVDs.

 

are they RA?

 

Coastline is RA - I just signed up for a geology course with them and found the sign-up procedure easy. Some courses require a proctor (or vist to the college) to take exams.
In state tuition $20 per unit, Out-of-state tuition $181 per unit. Plus some fees and books.

There are lots of colleges offering on-line statistics courses (maybe at lower cost) so check around.

 

the library doesn't have any I just ordered Understandable Statistics (Houghton Mifflin Mathematics DVDs) from amazon... hope they're good...

 

The University of Wyoming offers STAT 2000 online, it's a pretty gentle introduction to statistics and how they are created and used. A more math-heavy version is STAT 2070 (or STAT 2050 specifically for business majors), which used to be offered only via correspondence (circa 2004), not sure if they've gotten around to putting it online yet.

Best of luck!

 

Push back your DSST exam 10 more days. Use the Dummies for Statistics book from your library and watch the stats videos on www.learner.org free. For more info still, rent the Standard Deviants video series (www.netflix.com) and visit www.statistics.com
Finally, check the latest rules on what type of calculator you can use and LEARN your calculator. It will do a lot of work for you. I bought a new one for stats, and once I read the directions <smile> I was amazed that you could calculate standard deviations with the push of a button. (I only worked out about 50 long hand before that little discovery).
Good luck!!

 

woow... this does sound like a smart plan... thank you...
I'm not really sure about the calculator dantes and the test center were so unclear about what's allowed.

 

just go to the web site and get it from the horse's mouth, just give it a check before you get one. www.getcollegecredit.com

 

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I'm taking a paper based exam... what does this mean?

 

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That means if you don't bring one, you won't have one!!! You should be able to find one for under $20 at Walmart, mine is the Texas Instruments 36X and I think it was $9

 

I'll buy that then... thank you very much for this help.

 

Of all the test-for-credit exams I've taken, and I've taken many CLEP, DSST, and TECEP exams, DSST Statistics was the only one for which I've gotten a perfect score. So it can't be *too* bad.

To prepare for the exam, I took a regular Statistics course syllabus (it was probably the TESC one), purchased the same textbook as that course, and did all the assigned readings. This might have been overkill, as I remember the DSST fact sheet made the exam content seem a lot more superficial than an actual statistics course.

 

wow!... (what is a perfect score btw? I never figured out their marking system!)

 

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Watch me bow down to your feet! High five! I'll bow again for extra respect.

Perfect scores on CLEP and DSST exams are rare, in almost 2 years of hanging out with "CLEP junkies" I think you are the only second person I ever heard of earning a perfect score on an exam. The other was a native speaker who earned a perfect score on the Spanish exam. Can't recall his/her name, but they posted over on instantcert.
Clearly you mastered the information (as opposed to the exam being not too bad)!

 

100% = 80 scaled score
I think stats has roughly 105 questions but they are not all included in the score, some are being tested.

 

The video for the Statistics telecourse "Against all Odds" can be watched here
http://www.learner.org/resources/series65.html#

Thanks to Jennifer (Cookderosa) who pointed out this site on another thread.

 

THANX...
and thank you all for your encouragement... the DVDs arrived... they are 24 hrs worth ... anyways I'm watching them on 2x's the speed and I went though the first DVD yesterday!.. but it was just the beginning so not too hard... I'm going to buy a calculator today.....
thanks everyone... there might actually be a chance that I'll pass it! :yay:

 

TI 83 calcutator... you think they'll let me use it?