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      Statistics B34UC2

      Course Organisation
      Weeks 2 : Introduction. (Dr Yvan Petillot) 
      Weeks 3 : Probabilities (Dr Yvan Petillot)  
      Weeks 4 : Sampling (Dr Yvan Petillot)  
      Weeks 5 : Sampling & Confidence Intervals (Dr Yvan Petillot)  
      Weeks 6 : Estimation (Dr Yvan Petillot)  
      Weeks 7 : Hypothesis testing (Dr Yvan Petillot)  
      Weeks 8 : Regression Analysis (Dr Yvan Petillot)  
      Weeks 9 : Random number generation (Dr Yvan Petillot)  
      Lecturer: Dr. Yvan Petillot
      Contact Details: Room 3.20
      email: Y.R.Petillot@hw.ac.uk
      Aim of Course:
      To introduce elements of probabilities and statistics to enable sampling, estimation and hypothesis techniques, all notions that are useful for the modern electrical engineer.

      Recommended Text Most Statistics Text Books, including
       
      • Schaum's outlines Probability and Statistics 2nd edition

        • Comprehensive. Your bible for this course.
         

      On line Ressources


       

      General Useful links
       

      • EM personalities (a bit of history)

      LectureNotes

      You will find here some electronics copies of the lecture notes. These copies will not always be available and in any case only after the lectures.

      First/Second week notes on probabilities and random variables
      Third week notes on pdf
      Fourth week Notes on sampling
      5th week notes on Estimation/a>
      6th week notes on Hypothesis testing
      7th week notes on Regression analysis

      Tutorials

      These tutorials are year 2003 tutorials. The tutorials are available in pdf format. When you select one of these documents Adobe Acrobat Reader will start and open the document. You will then be able to read it, search it for key words or phrases or print it. When you are finished using the document, go to Acrobat's [File] menu and choose Exit.

      Solutions will be made available during the tutorials.

      Tutorial 1 - Probabilities
      Tutorial 2 - Sampling
      Tutorial 3 -Hypothesis testing and estimation

      Matlab Help Guides

      Matlab online help and tutorials can be found here.
      A local copy of Matlab Getting Started manual in pdf format can be found here.

      Assignment

      Details of the assignments for this course are now available. The assignments are available on-line in pdf format. When you select one of these documents Adobe Acrobat Reader will start and open the document. You will then be able to read it, search it for key words or phrases or print it. When you are finished using the document, go to Acrobat's [File] menu and choose Exit.

      Assignment on probabilities and sampling
      assignment on sampling, hypothesis testing and estimation
       
       

      If you have any queries please send email to me at Y.R.Petillot@hw.ac.uk

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