Statistics for Engineers

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 100A or Electrical Engineering 131A or Mathematics 170A. Foundation of basic concepts and techniques of statistics. Topics include sampling distributions, statistical estimation (including maximum likelihood estimation), statistical intervals, and hypothesis testing, with emphasis on application of these concepts. Discussion of methods for checking whether assumptions required for mathematical foundations are appropriate for given set of data. P/NP or letter grading.