Course Name Engineering Data and Analysis
Course Description This course is designed for undergraduate engineering students with
emphasis on problem solving related to societal issues that engineers and
scientists are called upon to solve. It introduces different methods of data
collection and sustainability of using a particular method for a given
situation.
The relationship of probability to statistics is also discussed, providing
students with the tools they need to understand how “chance” plays a
role in statistical analysis. Probability distributions of random variables
and their uses are also considered, along with a discussion of linear
functions of random variables within the context of their application to
data analysis and inference. The course also includes estimation
techniques for unknown parameters; and hypothesis testing used in
making inferences from sample to population; inference for regression
parameters and build models for estimating means and predicting future
values of key variables under study. Finally, statistically based
experimental design techniques and analysis of outcomes of experiments
are discussed with the aid of statistical software.
Number of Units for 3 units
Lecture
Number of Contact 3 hours per week
Hours per Week
Prerequisites Calculus 1
Program Outcomes To be identified by the program.
Course Outcomes To be identified by the program.
1. Obtaining Data
1.1. Methods of Data Collection
1.2. Planning and Conducting Surveys
1.3. Planning and Conducting Experiments: Introduction to
Design of Experiments.
2. Probability
2.1. Sample Space and Relationships among Events
2.2. Counting Rules Useful in Probability
2.3. Rules of Probability
Course Outlines 3. Discreet Probability Distributions
3.1. Random Variables and their Probability Distributions
3.2. Cumulative Distribution and Functions
3.3. Expected Values of Random Variables
3.4. The Binomial Distribution
3.5. The Poisson Distribution
4. Continuous Probability Distribution
4.1. Continuous Random Variables and their Probability
Distribution
4.2. Expected Values of Continuous Random Variables
4.3. Normal Distribution
4.4. Normal Approximation to the Binomial and Poisson
Distribution
4.5. Exponential Distribution
5. Joint Probability Distribution
5.1. Two or Random Variables
5.1.1. Joint Probability Distributions
5.1.2. Marginal Probability Distribution
5.1.3. Conditional Probability Distribution
5.1.4. More than Two Random Variables
5.2. Linear Functions of Random Variables
5.3. General Functions of Random Variables
6. Sampling Distributions and Point Estimation of Parameters
6.1. Point Estimation
6.2. Sampling Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem
6.3. General Concept of Point Estimation
6.3.1. Unbiased Estimator
6.3.2. Variance of a Point Estimator
6.3.3. Standard Error
6.3.4. Mean Squared Error of an Estimator
7. Statistical Intervals
7.1. Confidence Intervals: Single Sample
7.2. Confidence Intervals: Multiple Samples
7.3. Prediction Intervals
7.4. Tolerance Intervals
8. Test of Hypothesis for a Single Sample
8.1. Hypothesis Testing
8.1.1. One-sided and Two-sided Hypothesis
8.1.2. P-value in Hypothesis Tests
8.1.3. General Procedure for Test of Hypothesis
8.2. Test on the Mean of a Normal Distribution, Variance Known
8.3. Test on the Mean of a Normal Distribution, Variance
Unknown
8.4. Test on the Variance and Statistical Deviation of a Normal
Distribution
8.5. Test on a Population Proportion
9. Statistical Inference of Two Samples
9.1. Inference on the Difference in Means of Two Normal
Distributions, Variance Known
9.2. Inference on the Difference in Means of Two Normal
Distributions, Variance Unknown
9.3. Inference of the Variance of Two Normal Distributions
9.4. Inference of Two Population Proportions
10. Simple Linear and Regression and Correlation
10.1. Empirical Models
10.2. Regression: Modelling Linear Relationships – The Least-
Squares Approach
10.3. Correlation: Estimating the Strength of Linear Relation
10.4. Hypothesis Tests in Simple Linear Regression
10.4.1. Use of t-tests
10.4.2. Analysis of Variance Approach to Test Significance of
Regression
10.5. Prediction of New Observations
10.6. Adequacy of the Regression Model
10.6.1. Residual Analysis
10.6.2. Coefficient of Determination
10.7. Correlation
