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STAT-835 Probability and Statistics
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Campus
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MCE
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Programs
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PG
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Session
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Fall Semester 2016
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Course Title
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Probability and Statistics
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Course Code
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STAT-835
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Credit Hours
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3-0
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Pre-Requisutes
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Nil
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Course Objectives
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To equip the students with the knowledge of probability and statistical tools required for undertaking the significance of collected experimental or field data and analysis of data for use in planning / design of engineering projects.
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Detail Content
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- Set theory.
- Basic concepts of probability.
- Conditional probability.
- Independent events.
- Bayer’s formula.
- Random variables, discrete and continuous.
- Distribution and density functions.
- Mean, variance, standard deviation.
- j. Linear regression and curve fitting.
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Text/Ref Books
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- Dixon, W. J. and Massey, F. J. Introduction to Statistical Analysis, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
- Everitt, B. Chance Rules: An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk, and Statistics. Copernicus, 1999.
- Feller, W. An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Vol. 1, 3rd ed. New York: Wiley, 1968.Fisher, N. I.; Lewis, T.; and Embleton, B. J. J. Statistical Analysis of Spherical Data. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- Fisher, R. A. and Prance, G. T. The Design of Experiments, 9th ed. rev. New York: Hafner, 1974.
- Keeping, E. S. Introduction to Statistical Inference. New York: Dover, 1995.
- Mises, R. von Probability, Statistics, and Truth, 2nd rev. English ed. New York: Dover, 1981.
- O'Hagan, A. Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. 2B: Bayesian Inference, 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Ostle, B. Statistics in Research: Basic Concepts and Techniques for Research Workers, 4th ed. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1988.
- Papoulis, A. Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.
- Press, W. H.; Flannery, B. P.; Teukolsky, S. A.; and Vetterling, W. T. "Statistical Decommention of Data." Ch. 14 in Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 603-649, 1992.
- Ross, S. M. A First Course in Probability, 5th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997.
- Ross, S. M. Applied Probability Models with Optimization Applications. New York: Dover, 1992.
- Ross, S. M. Introduction to Probability Models, 6th ed. New York: Academic Press, 1997.
- Spiegel, M. R. and Stephens, L. J. Theory and Problems of Statistics, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
- Stuart, A.; and Ord, J. K. Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. 1: Distribution Theory, 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Stuart, A.; and Ord, J. K. Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. 2A: Classical Inference & the Linear Model, 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- s. Székely, G. J. Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, rev. ed. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Reidel, 1986.
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Time Schedule
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Fall 2015
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Faculty/Resource Person
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Lt Col Dr Muhammad Irfan PhD in Transportation Engineering
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