Statistics and Probability

Course Content

  • Descriptive statistics; graphical displays for simple data sets; measures for the center and spread of data.
  • Combinatorics; probability of various events using Venn diagrams, tree diagrams, and the addition and multiplication rules.
  • Mutually exclusive events; conditional probability; dependent and independent events; and Bayes theorem.
  • Random variables; probability distributions; expected value and variance.
  • Discrete and Continuous probability distributions including Binomial, Negative-Binomial, Geometric, and Poisson distributions; and, normal (Gaussian), Exponential, F and T distributions.
  • Sampling distribution and central limit theorem (CLT).
  • Point and Interval estimation for population means and proportions (one and two samples).
  • Hypothesis testing for population means and proportions; P-values in hypothesis testing.
  • Correlation coefficient and Regression line equations; testing significance of linear relation; confidence interval and hypothesis testing for regression coefficients.
  • Statistical inference tools for quality control.