<p>mine was intro to probability & statistics...MAN that class was a PAIN in the dye-rect ASS!!</p>
<p>I knew I wasn't going to be using my logs, my cosines and sines, or my derivatives, so I thought it'd be a sinch at first..</p>
<p>was I wrong....</p>
<p>you know stats doesn't involve any of those kinds of engineering math, mainly because it's a totally different level applying to everyday situations..</p>
<p>if you've taken it, who remembers the null hypothesis? rejection region? when to accept/reject your critical value? two tailed or one tailed? specified alpha level?</p>
<p>OMG! man I couldn't stand that stuff... it was conceptual math as opposed to those mechanical math courses (alg, calc, ). it was just annoying.</p>
<p>and although our final was open book, it was still one of the hardest finals i've ever had in my life. if the final was not open book, all of us would have failed. thank god we got to look up the key concepts in the index!!</p>
<p>Prob and stats was a ****ign PAIN IN THE ASS OF A CLASS. i HAD A MATH TEACHER WITH A STUDDERD WHEN HE TALKED. not only that but he was ass and didnt round your score to the next highest grade. he talked way to fast and made no sense and always talked in math language. the majority of the class conceptually had just as little understanding for the class in the begining as they did in the end. if i could have my way i would kill that teacher in a second just because he probably ruined so many peoples lives thinking he could teach. he deserves to be sliced like a pig. im thankful i passed the class and never have to take math again.</p>
<p>I loved statistics. I got an A in it in high school, but I had a cool teacher.</p>
<p>I also got an A in calc in HS, but had trouble in calc in college...mainly due to some stupid test mistakes and sleeping halfway through the final-which I miraculously made a B on.</p>
<p>Pre-Algebra, amazingly enough...I just wasn't ready for it in seventh grade and had a horrible teacher, even with a tutor I still made a C. Somehow I'm now in Calc 3, lol.</p>
<p>no i'm not majoring in electrical engineering or any engineering type of major (thak GOD)! you think i'd wanna waste my time with a bunch of TEDIOUS, pointless, boring CODING?! =D </p>
<p>my major is LAW AND SOCIETY baby; I am going to be a lawyer and attend law school hopefully.....In law school you need NO MATH AT ALL! i feel sorry for all those people doing engineering and have to take Calculus 1 and 2, or all these other annoying math classes!</p>
<p>no offense to those who are pursuing a major in that field!</p>
<p>my stats final was the HARDEST FINAL I EVER HAD in my entire life.</p>
<p>It was open book and I ended up getting a 130/200.</p>
<p>the main reason for that was because there was NO TIME WHATSOEVER to complete it, so I guessed on the last answers.</p>
<p>I take some classes at a community college. the worst class ever was algebra II. the class was held online.
NEVER AGAIN.
I got a 3.0 in it, even though I knew how to do all the stuff from the trimester in high school, it's just that the software was crap. It was incredibly easy to lose points on silly stuff like confusing the 'negative' button with the 'minus' one because they looked the same. you couldn't show your work, so on quizzes if you got the question wrong you wouldn't get partial credit you'd lose everything, and the "lectures" were utter hell. and if your computer froze you would have to redo the entire section, lectures and all, or you wouldn't get credit.</p>
<p>some people really like online courses but they must not have been using the same program I was.</p>
<p>probability for business? at least it doesn't have the theory, right? my probstats class was horrible, the theory was the worst. <em>barely</em> passed that one, unfortunately its kinda important in eng/research, oops. my diffeq clas was amazingly horrible too, but just because my professor couldn't teach at all...</p>
<p>no, math classes for business is all about application. so you have to know the theory, as well as how to apply it. there are tons of like word problems type and whatnot.</p>
<p>whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. AP Stats is definitely not like college probability and statistics. I definitely agree with the topic author that this is one of the most annoying classes I have taken. I am much more inclined to calculus than I am to this material. It is so... different.</p>
<p>Laurezer was your stat class heavy on Calculus. If you didn't use a lot of Calculus than that is not really probability theory or statistical theory.</p>
<p>The college stat class you people are talking about is extremly basic. So basic at most school statistics majors don't even take it. It is way to basic.</p>
<p>We are talking about "Introduction to Probability & Statistics" - the first course in statistics, just as you would take the first course in Calculus.</p>
<p>There is nothing "extremely basic" about it, just an intro class.</p>
<p>The class is non-calculus based; different applications/methods are used instead of calc. ones. Grad schools majoring in biochemistry were using the same text we were at my JC.</p>
<p>I believe AP Stats is the same as Intro to Probability and Statistics.</p>
<p>Yes, this was, indeed, a brutal pain in the ass.</p>