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MATH152 Statistics for Engineers

This course is a calculus-based, mathematical introduction to the fundamental principles of probability theory, statistics, and applications. Topics include descriptive measures, the axioms and properties of probability, combinatorial analysis used in computing probabilities, conditional probability, independence of events, sampling theory, discrete and continuous random variables, the standard distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, regression and correlation, expected value and variance, joint distributions, distributions of a function of a random variable, and sampling distributions. Also included are theoretical results such as Bayes Theorem, Central Limit Theorem, Law of Large Numbers, the Empirical Rule, Hypothesis Testing and Confidence intervals at least for a single mean and a single proportion. Programming in R or a similar language will be used to gain experience with statistical analysis in practice.