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Recent Instructors
Tzeng, Jung-Ying
ST 361 Introduction to Statistics for Engineers

Course Description

This course teaches statistical techniques useful to engineers and physical scientists. By the end of the course, the student should be able to interpret, analyze, and understand data; interpret, discuss, report, and critique statistical information; design experiments and studies; draw statistically supportable conclusions.

Course Syllabus

  • Descriptive statistics
  • Design of experiments
  • Probability
  • Random variables
  • Properties of estimators
  • Random sampling
  • Central Limit Theorem
  • Approximation to Binomial
  • Confidence intervals
  • Tests for means and proportions
  • Simple linear regression
  • Correlation

Course Prerequisites

  • College Algebra
Course Corequisites
  • None
Recent Textbooks
  • Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Devore and Farnum
  • Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data, 4 ed., Devore and Peck

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Last Modified May 2006