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ENGR 0020: Probability & Statistics for Engineers 1 (Spring 2011)

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Jayant Rajgopal
1039 Benedum Hall
Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Tel. +1 412 624 9840
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The following is a very tentative schedule for the course - we will probably change things as we proceed depending upon the progress we are able to make.
 


Date Content Chapter in Text
1/05/11 Adminstrative Preliminaries; 
Descriptive Statistics
Chap. 1
1/10/11 Probability - Basic Concepts Chap. 2.1, 2.2
1/12/11 Probability - Counting, Conditional Probability Chap. 2.3, 2.4
1/17/11 No School - Dr. MLK's birthday
MLK
1/19/11 Probability - Independence Chap. 2.5
1/24/11 Discrete Random Variables - Introduction Chap. 3.1-3.3
1/26/11 Binomial Distribution Chap. 3.4
1/31/11 Poisson Distribution Chap. 3.6
2/02/11 Discrete Distributions Chap. 3
2/07/11 Continuous Random Variables - Introduction Chap. 4.1, 4.2
2/09/11 EXAMINATION 1 Chapters 1-3
2/14/11 Uniform and Normal Distributions Chap. 4.3
2/16/11 Normal Distribution Chap. 4.3
2/21/11 Normal & Exponential Distributions Chap. 4.3, 4.4
2/23/11 Normal Probability Plots Chap. 4.6
2/28/11 Joint Probability Distributions; Correlation Chap. 5.1, 5.2
3/02/11 Sampling Distributions and Central Limit Theorem Chap. 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
3/07/11

3/09/11
NO CLASSES - Spring Break
3/14/11 Point/Interval Estimation Chap. 6.1,7.1-7.4

3/16/11

Interval Estimation
Chap. 7.2-7.4
3/21/11 Interval Estimation Chap. 7.2-7.4
3/23/11 EXAMINATION 2 Chapters 4-6
3/28/11 Hypothesis Testing Chap. 8
3/30/11 Hypothesis Testing Chap. 8
4/04/11 Hypothesis Testing Chap. 8
4/06/11 Inferences Based on Two Samples Chap. 9.1, 9.2
4/11/11 Analysis of Paired Data Chap. 9.3
4/13/11 Introduction to Regression Analysis Chap. 12.1, 12.2
4/18/11 Regression/Intro. to Quality Control Chap. 12.2, 16.1
4/20/11 X-bar and R Charts Chap. 16.2, 16.3
4/25/11 EXAMINATION 3 (2:00-3:50 P.M.)  Chapters 7, 8, 9, 16