This document outlines a course on Probability Methods in Engineering offered in the spring 2018 semester. The course introduces fundamental concepts of probability theory and statistics that are applicable to engineering problems. Topics include discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions like binomial, Poisson, and normal, and applications such as linear regression. Assessment includes quizzes, assignments, exams, and measuring of learning outcomes related to explaining and applying probability concepts to engineering problems.
This document outlines a course on Probability Methods in Engineering offered in the spring 2018 semester. The course introduces fundamental concepts of probability theory and statistics that are applicable to engineering problems. Topics include discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions like binomial, Poisson, and normal, and applications such as linear regression. Assessment includes quizzes, assignments, exams, and measuring of learning outcomes related to explaining and applying probability concepts to engineering problems.
This document outlines a course on Probability Methods in Engineering offered in the spring 2018 semester. The course introduces fundamental concepts of probability theory and statistics that are applicable to engineering problems. Topics include discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions like binomial, Poisson, and normal, and applications such as linear regression. Assessment includes quizzes, assignments, exams, and measuring of learning outcomes related to explaining and applying probability concepts to engineering problems.
This document outlines a course on Probability Methods in Engineering offered in the spring 2018 semester. The course introduces fundamental concepts of probability theory and statistics that are applicable to engineering problems. Topics include discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions like binomial, Poisson, and normal, and applications such as linear regression. Assessment includes quizzes, assignments, exams, and measuring of learning outcomes related to explaining and applying probability concepts to engineering problems.
Introduction to statistics and statistical methods, frequency distribution and representation of data, probability theory, conditional probability, law of total probability and Bays rule, random variables and random processes, concept of discrete and continuous random variables, probability distribution/density functions (Joint probability distributions, Uniform, Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Uniform & Normal distribution, Gamma, Exponential distributions), expectation, correlation, power spectrum, simple linear Regression and fitting of curves, correlation study, applications of probability. Textbook(s): 1) Probability and Stochastic Processes by Roy D. Yates and Goodman
Reference Books 1. Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientist by Walpole, Myers” 9th Edition. 2. Probability and Random Processes for electrical engineering by John A. Gubner. 3. Probability and Random Processes for electrical engineering by Alberto Garcia.
Course Learning Objective:
1. To introduce students to applications of probability theory in the engineering problems.
2. To learn fundamental concepts of probability theory such as conditional probability, laws of probability, Bayes rule, law of total probability. 3. Understand random processes and formulate and solve real world problems in the form of discrete and continuous random processes
Subject: Probability Methods in Engineering Spring - 2018
Course Learning Outcomes:
After the completion of course the students will be capable of:
1. Explain the various statistical/probability methods in engineering. (PLO1-C2)
2. Apply basic laws of probability to engineering domain problems. (PLO2-C3) 3. Differentiate the discrete/continuous random variables based on their distributions. (PLO2-C4) 4. Apply standard discrete/continuous distributions to solve probabilities related to engineering problems. (PLO1-C3) 5. Apply the sampling concepts to analyze a sampling process and its outcomes using central limit theorem. (PLO1-C3)
Week 1: Introduction and some motivating examples. Why do we need probabilistic
analysis in science and engineering? Definitions, scope and history; limitation of classical and relative frequency based definitions. Basic terminology- Population and Sample, Measures of Location: Mean, Median, Mode, Measures of dispersion-sample range, standard deviation. Week 2: Sets, sample space and events; Counting the elements in Sample Space; Introducing Basic Concept of Probability, Axioms of Probability Week 3: Laws of probability, independence, Joint and conditional probabilities, examples. Week 4: Total probability; Bayes’ rule and applications. Week 5: Definition of random variables, continuous and discrete random variables, cumulative distribution function (cdf) for discrete and continuous random variables; probability mass function (pmf); Week 6: Probability density functions (pdf) and properties, joint Probability Distributions Week 7: Conditional distributions, Statistical Independence Week 8: Expected Value of Random Variables, Variance of Random Variables. Week 9: Covariance and Correlation coefficient of random variables, Mean and variances of linear combination of random variables, Chebyshev’s theorem. Week 10: Discrete Random variable distributions; Binomial Distribution. Mean and Variance. Applications to Problems. Week 11: Negative binomial and Hyper geometric distributions. Applications to Problems. Week 12: Poisson and Geometric distributions. Applications to Problems. Week 13: Continuous Distributions, Uniform Distribution, Normal distribution- definition, properties; standard normal distribution. Application to Problems. Week 14: Normal Approximation to Binomial, Exponential and Gamma Distributions. Applications to Problems. Week 15: Sampling, sampling distributions, Central Limit Theorem Week 16: Linear Regression
Subject: Probability Methods in Engineering Spring - 2018
