Statistics 3N03/3J04

Statistical Methods for Engineering
Probability and Statistics for Engineering

Dr P.D.M. Macdonald, Dr S. Dickson

2003-2004


| Announcements | Calendar | Timetable | Labs | Course Notes | Computing Resources |
| Exercises | Assignments | Tests | Links | Trivia |

Statistics 3N03 and 3J04 are offered by the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at McMaster University.
Any questions, comments or suggestions? Send an e-mail to me at pdmmac@mcmaster.ca.


Announcements

All the assignments are marked; I have left them on the table by my office.

The Definitions page has been updated. There is also an excellent Glossary in the course text, pp 689-702.

Please copy Tables I to V from the text and bring them to the Final Exam.

Check your STATS 3N03 or STATS 3J04 Term Marks Online!

Exam Office Hours:

  • Sun Nov 30: 15:00-17:00
  • Mon Dec 1: 12:30-18:30
  • Sat Dec 6: 9:00-12:00 & 13:00-17:00
  • Sun Dec 7: 20:00-22:00
  • Mon Dec 8: 9:00-12:00 & 13:00-18:00
  • Tue Dec 9: 15:00-17:30
  • Wed Dec 10: 9:30-13:00

I will be in Washington, DC, December 3-5 serving on a Scientific Advisory Panel for the US Environmental Protection Agency, on "Probabilistic exposure and risk assessment for children who contact CCA-treated wood on playsets and decks and CCA-containing soil around these structures" and again on December 11-12 for "Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling (PBPK): Pilot analysis with a n-methyl carbabmate pesticide." These are public hearings to review the methodology the EPA proposes to use. Why is it important to have statisticians on these panels?

Calendar Description & Course Outline

STATS 3N03: Introduction to statistical methods and applications: data analysis and statistical methods.

STATS 3J04: Introduction to probability, data analysis, statistical inference, regression, correlation and analysis of variance, applications to civil and environmental engineering.

Timetable

Monday at 11:30, Wednesday at 11:30, Friday at 13:30 in HH-109

STATS 3J04 has an additional class with Dr Dickson each Monday at 12:30 in HH-305

Computer Labs

Course Notes

Computing Resources

Exercises

These exercises are for self-directed learning. They will not be graded and you do not have to hand them in. However, you will find that writing down your interpretation of the results is an excellent way to clarify your understanding. If you complete your report and submit it to me, I will read it and return it with comments and suggestions.

Assignments

Tests

Test #1 - Solutions

2003-10-02 (Thursday)

19:00-21:00

BSB-241, 242, 244, 245 Computer Labs*

Test #2 - Solutions

2003-10-30 (Thursday)

18:45-19:45

ABB-B163

Test #3 - Solutions

2003-11-24 (Monday)

18:45-19:45

ABB-B163 Bring copies of Tables I-V

If you are unable to write a test at the scheduled time, please e-mail me at least three days before to make special arrangements. EACH MAKE-UP TEST WILL BE HELD AT 8:30 AM THE FOLLOWING MORNING. [Tuesday November 25 in BSB-B142.]

*You must have a valid userid, password and laser printing account for the BSB computer lab when you write Test #1 on October 2. Tests MUST be submitted on paper; electronic submission is NOT permitted.

Some Other Links

Trivia

Learn about these famous statisticians!
Siméon Denis Poisson, Florence Nightingale, William Sealey Gosset, Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, John Wilder Tukey, Charles Dunnett.
George Waddel Snedecor named the F-distribution in honour of Fisher.
Gosset and I both studied at New College, Oxford, but we were not there at the same time.

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