ISE.2.6: Probability and
Statistics
Course Outline
Random experiments
- Probability
- axioms of probability
- elementary probability results
- conditional probability
- the law of total probability
- Bayes theorem
- Systems reliability
- Discrete random variables
- Binomial distribution
- Poisson distribution
- Continuous random variables
- exponential distribution
- normal distribution
- uniform distribution
- Reliability; hazard rates
Recommended Texts
- William Mendenhall and Terry Sincich,
Statistics for the engineering and
computer sciences, second edition, Dellen
Publishing Company.
- Alfredo Ang and Wilson
Tang, Probability concepts in
engineering planning and design, Wiley.
I shall hand out a full set of
course notes, which will be supplemented with examples that I shall work
through each week.
Notes:
Revision Notes:
Assessed
Coursework:
I shall make the worked class
examples available here following the lectures that they appear in.
Worked Class
Examples:
Problem Sheets:
Solutions:
Examination Formula
sheets
Mathematics Formula sheet
Statistics Formula sheet
Past Examinations and
Solutions
2005 Exam 2005 Solutions
2006 Exam 2006 Solutions
2007 Exam 2007 Solutions
Updated:
October, 2009.