MA-345 Probability and Statistics for Engineers (3-0-3)

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All works must be completed by the end of semester. In an exceptional case only will an incomplete will be issued, in such case we will follow the rules set forth on the latest publication of the College Catalog on Incomplte Grades.

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Adobe PDF copy of all the homeworks is available in Blackboard. This is important, specially if you have an 'international copy' of the textbook, where the ISBN and pages varies quite a bit.

SESSION
 TOPICS Chapter & HW

1
 Course overview
(read chap1)Intro to Statistics & Data Analysis
On Sets
Counting
Probability of an event
Conditional density function
chap2
HW-1
#16 (pg 39)
# 98 (pg 67)

2
 Random variables
Discrete probability distributions
Continuous probability distributions
Joint probability distributions
 chap3
HW-2
#36 (pg 91)

3
 Mean of a random variable
Variance & Covariance of random variable
Means & variances
chap4
HW-3
#14 (pg 113)

4
 Discrete uniform distribution
Discrete binomial distribution
Discrete poisson distribution
Continuous uniform distribution
Continuous normal distribution
Continuous gamma & exponential distribution
chap5
HW-4
#8 (pg 150)

chap6
HW-5:
#22 (pg 187)

5
 Population, random sampling & statistic
Sampling distribution & central limit theorem
chap8
HW-6:
#4 (pg 234)

6
 Estimation & statistical inference
Methods of estimation
Estimating the mean & prediction interval
chap9
HW-7;
#4 (pg 285)

7
 Stochastic processes
WEB

8
 In-class FINAL EXAM  

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