Aims

The aims of the course are to:

• Show how concepts of probability can be applied to engineering applications.

Objectives

As specific objectives, by the end of the course students should be able to:

• Explain and use simple ideas of probability, mean, variance, etc.
• Manipulate random variables and probability density functions.
• Solve simple statistical problems of engineering importance.

Content

Probability and Statistics

• Probability
• Conditional probability and independence
• Expectation of a random variable
• Probability density function for a continuous random variable
• Key discrete probability mass functions
• Key continuous probability density functions
• Functions of random variables
• Multivariate distributions
• Decision and estimation: basic definitions
• Tests of significance

Further Information

Further information, including details of each lecture and hand-outs are available on the course moodle site.