STAT 254

Probability and Statistics for Engineers

Units: 1.5

Hours: 3-0-1

Probability axioms, properties of probability, counting techniques, conditional probability, independence, random variables, discrete and continuous probability distributions, expectation, variance; binomial, hypergeometric, negative binomial, Poisson, uniform, normal, gamma and exponential distributions; discrete and continuous joint distributions, independent random variables, expectation of functions of random vectors, covariance, random samples and sampling distributions, central limit theorem; point and interval estimation; hypothesis testing; linear regression and correlation.

Notes:

• Credit will be granted for only one of STAT 254, STAT 250, STAT 260.
• See Credit Limit - Beginning Level Statistics Courses.

Prerequisites:

• Admission to BEng program.

Corequisites:

• MATH 200.

Undergraduate course in Statistics offered by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science.