TMA4255 Experimental design and applied statistical methods

FINAL CURRICULUM SPRING 2007

 

The curriculum is defined to be all that is covered in lectures or in exercises.

 

Foils and notes used in the lectures can be downloaded from the course homepage, see under “Progress”.

Main literature is Walpole, Myers and Myers (1998/2002): "Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists". Sixth/Seventh edition. Prentice Hall.
Table to be used in exam: "Statistiske tabeller og formler". Tapir.

Some references to book and notes:

Topic

Chapter (7th Edition)

 

Topics from introductory course. Descriptive measures and graphs. Normal plot.

 

 

(Ch. 1-10),

particularly 8.1-8.7

 

Two samples. Comparison of variances. F-distribution.

Simple linear regression..

 

9.8, 9.13, 10.8, 10.13, 10.18, 8.8.

11.6 - 11.12.

 

 

Multiple linear regression

 

 

12.1 -12.7, 12.9-12.11

 

2k experiments and fractions thereof

 

 

Notes (see webpage,

week 6)

 

Analysis of variance

13.1-13.4,13.6,13.8-13.10,13.12,13.14
14.1-14.4

 

Statistical process control

 

 

17.1-17.5

 

Chi-square tests and contingency tables

 

 

10.14-10.16

 

Non-parametric statistics

 

 

16.1-16.4

 

Approximation of expectation and variance

 

 

Notes (see webpage,

week 17)

 

 Updated May 8, 2007