Stat 312 – Introduction to Statistics for Engineers

General Information

• Instructor: Dr. John Uebersax (juebersa@calpoly.edu)
• Office hours: Tuesday/Thursday (to be decided)
• Office: Building 25, Room 111
• Course information

  >>>Important!<<< Classroom change: Starting Tuesday, January 14, class will meet in 02-204 (Cotchett Education Building, 2nd floor).

Text

• Levine, Ramsey & Smidt. Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Prentice Hall, 2001. (Note: Later editions are identical.)
• Chapter 1 (temporary use only!)
• Textbook home page
• Data Sets (Excel) for text

Lecture Notes

• 01 - What is Statistics.doc
• 02 - Variable Types & Levels of Measurement.doc
• 03 - Sampling.doc
• 04 - Operational Definitions & Quality Management.doc
• 05 - Frequency Distributions & Histograms.doc
• 06 - Frequency Distributions & Histograms (ctd).doc
  • Cholesterol homework data.xls
  • Homework 06 report template.docx
• 07 - Measures of Central Tendency & Disperson.doc
• 08 - Variance and Standard Deviation.doc
• 09a - Introduction to Probability Theory.doc (Wednesday's lecture)
• 09b - Probability Theory & Binomial Distribution.doc (Thursday's lecture)
  • bolts.xls
  • Homework 09 report template.docx
• 10 - Grouped Data - Hypergeometric Distribution - Poisson Distribution.doc
• 11 - Poisson Processes (ctd) - Probability Distributions (rev).doc
  • Coin-flip simulation.xls
• 12 - Normal and Standard Normal Distributions (rev).doc <-- revised!
  • Normdist.xlsx (Old .xls version)
• Midterm 1 Review:
  • Rules of Probability Review Slides: (PowerPoint) (pdf)
  • Study Topics and Sample Questions
  • Answers to Sample Questions - updated (all answers)
• 13 - Exponential & Weibull Distributions - Central Limit Theorem.doc
  • Exponential_distribution.xls
• 14 - Sampling Distribution and Standard Error of the Mean.doc
• 14b - Central Limit Theorem & Standard Error of Mean (review).doc
  • mpg.xls
• 15 - Sampling Distribution of a Proportion.doc
• 16 - Hypothesis Testing, p-values, Tests of 1 Mean.doc
  • raisins.xls
  • For HW 16 solution see first part of Lecture 18
• 17 - Confidence Intervals (rev).doc <-- revised after class!
• 18 - Tests of Two Sample Means.doc
  • phone.xls
  • HW 18 solution - phone_worked_t-test.xls
• 19 - Correlation and Regression.doc
  • machine error.xls
  • 19 - Correlation and Regression Homework Solution.doc
  • Pearson correlation calculator - homework.xls
• 20 - Odds Ratio.doc
  • 20 - Odds Ratio homework solution.doc
  • Odds ratio calculator.xls
• 21 - Chi-squared Tests of Independence.doc
  • voters_frequencies.xls
• Important: If you have not yet turned in homework 16 (raisins), 18 (t-test), or 19 (correlation/regression), please do so before class begins tomorrow (i.e., Thursday, March 13).
• 22 - Control Charts.doc
• 23 - Analysis of Variance.doc
• 24 - Bayes Theorem & Bayesian Statistics.doc
• For recent homework solutions see respective lectures above.
• Stat312 Final Exam Study Topics.doc
• The Stat312 final exam will be Monday 3/17 beginning at 1:10 pm in 02-204, confirmed by the class scheduling office. The exam will last 90 minutes.
• I didn't post practice questions for the final because of illness and also so that the final wouldn't be ridiculously easy. For practice problems, review odd numbered exercises in the text that correspond to topics we've covered; the answers are in the back of the book.

Videos

• jbstatistics YouTube Playlists
• Probability and Statistics (Khan Academy/YouTube)
• Introductory Statistics (Perdisco/YouTube)

Resources

• Prof. Smidt's Stat 312 page (class handouts, sample exam questions)
• Instructions for downloading and installing JMP
• JMP documentation
• JMP Youtube Channel
  • Getting started Pt. 1
  • Getting started Pt. 2
  • Getting started Pt. 3
• Introduction to Statistics (Saylor.org)
• Collaborative Statistics (open source text)