PROBABILISTIC AND STATISTICAL

METHODS FOR ENGINEERING

Master degree "Engineering cycle”

(BAC/GCE Als + 5 years)

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics de

Yaoundé

72 hours, 9 credits

Email address: psme.yaounde@yahoo.it

Receiving students: after lesson

Suggested Textbook:
Montgomery DC, Runger GC (2014),
APPLIED STATISTICS AND PROBAILITY FOR
ENGINEERS
6th edition, Wiley.
Exam:
•Written test (2 hours):
• Multiple choice questions
• Theory questions
• Application problems

•For each question:

• Right answer = positive score
• Wrong answer = negative score
• Missing answer = null score

• Final rate = sum of the scores

Learning objectives

Introduce the main statistical techniques useful in the framework

of Engineering, considering both theoretical aspects and
application problems.

The main goal of the course is providing statistical tools for:

• Processing and analyzing a dataset;

• Representing data with suitable graphs;
• Interpreting the results in a critical way;
• Designing and performing statistical experiments;
• Decision making in the presence of uncertainty.
Topics
1. Role of statistics
2. Probability
3. Discrete random variables
4. Continuous random variables
5. Joint probability distributions
6. Descriptive statistics
7. Sampling distributions
8. Statistical intervals for a single sample
9. Tests of hypothesis for a single sample
10. Statistical inference for two samples
11. Simple linear regression
12. Multiple linear regression
13. One-way ANOVA
14. Multi-way ANOVA
15. Nonparametric statistics
16. Statistical Quality Control