TEACHING GUIDE 2013/14

Centre 226 - Faculty of Computer Engineering

Plan GINFOR20 - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering Course Second year
SUBJECT
25973 - Statistical Methods of Engineering Créditos ECTS : 6
COMPETENCES/DESCRIPTION/OBJECTIVES

DESCRIPTION

This module introduces students to the basic statistical concepts and methods employed in solving engineering problems.
It develops students ability to organise, describe, analyse and present data. Students will learn basic probability concepts
that enable them to compute the likelihood of occurrence of an event of interest in situations of uncertainty.

The goal of this course is to show to the future engineer the basics of data analysis, in particular the evaluation of data
coming from different sources, as the engineer surely will work with professionals of other disciplines or in interdisciplinary
teams.

The ultimate goal of this process is to get information from the results of the analysis of data, the estimation of future
behaviors and the planification of experiments.

In addition, the student will be provided with the necessary scientific background besides the intelectual aptitude and
methodological tools in order to understand other subjects and to learn and apply by themselves new techniques in new
researching contexts. All of which will help them to adapt to the job market successfully.

ADQUIRED COMPETENCIES

The ability of analysing, describing and summarizing data with numerical and graphical methods.

Learning of basic concepts of Probability theory.

Statistical reasoning based on Probability theory concepts.

Implementation of statistical models to solve real world engineering problems.

The ability to work with statistical software and to understand the results.

Besides all the above mentioned competencies, C8, C9 and C10 will be also specifically developed in the subject, besides
the FB1 and FB3 competencies that you can find in the following direction:
http://www.ehu.es/documents/340468/516505/Lista+de+competencias.pdf (in spanish)

http://www.informatika.ehu.es/p248-
content/eu/contenidos/informacion/indice_finformatica_titulacion/eu_titulaci/adjuntos/General%20competences%20of%20th
e%20degree.pdf (in english)

SYLLABUS
Lesson 1. Historial introduction to Statistics and Probability. Basic steps in statistical methodology. Descriptive statistics,
probability calculus and statistical inference. Population and sample. Random experiments. Definition of Statistical
Variable. Types of variables: cualitatives and cuantitatives. Aplications to Informatics Engineering and other domains.

Lesson 2. Descriptive statistics. Frecuency distributions and Graphic Resentations. Collection and organization of Data.
Individual data and grouped data. Frecuency istributions: absolute frecuencies and relative frecuencies. Distribution
function: cumulative frecuencies. Graphical representations: scatterplots, bar chart, histogram. Aplications to Informatics
Engineering.

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 Lesson 3. Descriptive statistics. Central tendency, Dispersion and Position measures. Measures of Position: deciles,
quartiles, percentiles. Graphical representation: boxplot. Measures of central tendency: mean, median and mode.
Definition of variablility and measures of dispersion: range, variance, standard deviation, typical deviation and coefficient of
variation. Typifying values. Aplications to Informatics Engineering.

Lesson 4. Descriptive statistics. Bivariate distributions. Correlation and regression. Types of bidimensional variables.
Graphical representations: parallel coordinates diagram, scatterplots, bar char, box plots. Joint distribution function.
Marginal distributions. Conditional distributions. Independent statistical variables. Covariance. Pearson's correlation
coefficient. The task of regression. Least-squares linear regression straight line. Non-linear regression. Aplications to
Informatics Engineering.

Lesson 5. Probability. Basic theory of probablility. Random experiments. Events. Sample spaces (countable and
uncountable). Types of events. Axiomatic definiton of probability (Addition rule). Conditional probability (Multiplication
rule). Independent events. Law of total probability. Bayes' theorem.

Lesson 6. Probability. Random variables and probability distributions. Definition of random variable. Types of random
variables: discrete and continuous. Distribution of a random variable: probability mass function, probability density
function and probability distribution function. Characteristics functios: mathematical expectation and variance. Common
distributions of random variables: discrete (Bernoulli, Uniform, Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Hypergeometric) and
continous (Uniform, Normal, Exponential, Weibull, Gamma). Aplications to Informatics Engineering.

Lesson 7. Probability. Sampling, simulation and central limit theorems. Basic concepts of sampling. Random sample.
Random number generation. Random variable simulation. Law of large numbers. Distribution of a statistic. Central
limit theorem. Applications to sample size determination. The Normal approximation to the Binomial and Poisson
distributions Sampling of Normal populations: Pearsons' chi-square distribution. Aplications to Informatics Engineering.

Lesson 8. Statistical Inference. Estimating of Characteristics. Point Estimation. Interval estimation. Estimators of
means(and proportions) and variances. Normal populations: Student's t distribution. Bootstrapping. Aplications to
Informatics Engineering.

Lesson 9. Statistical Inference. Hypothesis testing. Null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis. Types of errors, critical
regions, significance level and power function of the test. Test concerning means (and proportions) and variances. The
relationship between confidence intervals and hypothesis tests. Aplications to Informatics Engineering.

Lesson 10. Statistical Inference. Goodness of fit test for a univariate distribution. The chi-square test. The Kolgomorov-
Smirnov test. Aplications to Informatics Engineering.

TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Teaching method M S GA GL GO GCL TA TI GCA

Contact lesson 40 10 10
Personal work hours 60 15 15

Legend: M: Master lecture S: Seminar GA: Practical room session GL: Practical Lab. session GO: Computer P.
GCL: P. Clínic P. TA: Workshop TI: Individual workshop GCA: Fieldwork
Comments :
Active methodologies

During the lectures and laboratories individual and group activities will take place.
The results of exercises will be presented and discussed in order to encorauge the direct participation of the students in
the developtment of the course and to foster their motivation.

Students must attend 60 hours of lectures and dedicate 90 hours to homework assignments.

EVALUATION PROCEDURES
- Written examn
- Practical work (assignmets, cases or problems)
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 There are two ways of grading the subject:
- Final assesment (global assesment) and continuous assessment.

Continuous assessment will be voluntary and will be only offered to the students that can fulfill the
predefined attending requisites of the subject.
The pre-registration in the continuous assessment will be made at the stablished data.
The pre-registration will be definitive after confirmation from the student in the determined data
(between the 60% and 80% of the course) unless the academic results advise otherwise.

FINAL ASSESMENT:
- Written exams in the scheduled/published data for the ordinary and extraordinary calls- 100%
CONTINOUS ASSESMENT:
- Written works evaluation (problems, conceptual maps, statements ...) - 20%
- Written tasks associated with the continous assesment (test, exams, homeworks ) - 70%
- Laboratory results assesment - 10%

COMPULSORY MATERIAL

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Basic bibliography
Tomeo & alt - Lecciones de Estadística descriptiva - Thomson - 2003.
Tomeo & alt - Lecciones de Cálculo de Probabilidades - Thomson - 2003.
Canavos - Probabilidad y Estadística. Aplicaciones y métodos - McGraw-Hill - 1988.
Peña - Fundamentos de Estadística - Alianza editorial - 2001.
Milton - Probabilidad y estadística con aplicaciones para ingeniería y ciencias computacionales - 4a ed. - Mcgraw-Hill -
2004.
Trivedi - Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing, and Computer Science Applications - Wiley - 2001.
Agresti & Franklin - Statistics: the art and science of learning from data - 2nd ed. - Pearson. Prentice Hall - 2009.
Montgomery - Probabilidad y estadística aplicadas a la ingeniería - 2a ed. - Limusa Wiley - 2004.
Navidi - Estadística para ingenieros - Mcgraw-Hill / Interamericana - 2006.
Mendenhall - Probabilidad y estadística para ingeniería y ciencias - Prentice Hall, 1997.
Devore - Probabilidad y Estadística para Ingeniería y Ciencias. International Thomson, 2001.
Walpole & alt.- Probabilidad y Estadística para Ingenieros. Prentice Hall Hispanoamericana, 1999.

Additional bibliography
Peña - Estadística. Modelos y métodos - Alianza Universidad - 1991.
Paradis - R para principiantes ¿ http://www.r-project.org - 2006.
Pérez - Estadística aplicada a través de Excel - Prentice Hall - 1992.

Journals

Recommended web links

http://onlinestatbook.com/rvls.html
http://www.economics.pomona.edu/StatSite/framepg.html
http://www.mathcs.carleton.edu/probweb/probweb.html
http://www.statsci.org
http://estadistico.com

http://www.r-project.org
http://ocw.uc3m.es/estadistica/aprendizaje-del-software-estadistico-r-un-entorno-para-simulacion-y-computacion-
estadistica

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