MAT 2377 Probability and Statistics for Engineers

3 units
Mathematics
Faculty of Science
A concise survey of: combinatorial analysis; probability and random variables; discrete and continuous densities and distribution functions; expectation and variance; normal (Gaussian), binomial and Poisson distributions; statistical estimation and hypothesis testing; method of least squares, correlation and regression. The emphasis is on statistics and quality control methods for engineers. The courses MAT 2377 , MAT 1371 , MAT 1372 , MAT 2371 , MAT 2375 , MAT 2378, MAT 2379 , ADM 2303 , ECO 3150, HSS 2381 , PSY 2106 cannot be combined for units.

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Lecture

Requirements:

Prerequisite: MAT 1320 or MAT 1321 or MAT 1327 or MAT 1330 . The course MAT 1322 or MAT 1325 or MAT 1332 is corequisite to MAT 2377 .

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Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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