Hochschule Coburg

Analytical Instruments, Measurement and Sensor Technology

Subject / Prüfungsfach: Mathematical Data Analysis

Date / Prüfungstag: 28 January 2021
Time for exam / Arbeitszeit: 90 minutes
Permitted materials / erlaubte Hilfsmittel: all written materials, pocket calculator

1. Observations of a random quantity X provided the following values:

−1 −2 0 1 −2 1

a) Calculate the mean, median, empirical standard deviation, and interquartile distance of X.

b) Determine the confidence intervals for the expected value and for the variance to a confi-
dence level of γ = 0.99.

2. Compute the Fourier transform of the signal

(
−1 + 2 | t | if |t| ≤ 12 ,
x (t) =
0 elsewhere.

3. Consider rolling the following two modified dice simultaneously: Die A has two of its surfaces
labelled 0 and the remaining four surfaces labelled 1, die B has one of its surfaces labelled 2 and
the remaining five surfaces labelled 3. The random quantity X is defined as the sum of the two
numbers.

a) Calculate the expected value and the variance of X.

b) What is the probability of an even value for X?

4. a) Calculate the first four values X (0) to X (3) of the discrete Fourier transform of the signal
sequence
x ( k ) = [2 0 1 −1 0 1 0 − 1].

b) Is it possible to deduce the missing DFT values from those calculated in part a?

c) Calculate those DFT values with a minimum of computational steps.

5. Calculate the best fit of a quadratic model x (t) = A t2 + B to the following data points:

t −1 0 1 2
xt 0 -1 0 5