STAT 113 -- STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS

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Instructors:

Peter Mueller TAs: Natasha Avinash Oka Shu-Hua Pai.
Lecture: MWF, 1:10PM- 2:00
Social Sciences, room 136. 		Rec: F 2:20 to 3:10;
Social Sciences, room 219		 F, 3:55PM- 4:45
Social Sciences, room 219
Off: 219 Old Chem. t.b.a.
Tel: 684-3437 t.b.a.
e-mail: pm@stat.duke.edu nao2@acpub.duke.edu shup@econ.duke.edu
OH: MW 2-3

Text

Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences by Mendenhall and Sincich. Prentice Hall.

About the course: the course is an introduction to statistical reasoning, and includes a review of the necessary elements of probability theory. Applications in various branches of engineering will be stressed. Understanding of each of the topics relies on the material preceding it: it is important to master each topic as soon as it is covered. Click here for a week by week syllabus.

Homework

Weekly problem sets are due in lecture on Monday; The lowest homework score will be dropped. Beyond this late homework will not be accepted (since solutions will be posted on the WWW). You can always submit assignments before the due date. We will ask you to work on homeworks in groups of around 4 students each. See Group Work Rules for a few comments and rules about group work on the homework assignments. See the Assignments page for current homework problems, hints and solutions.

Grading

Exams and homeworks will be weighted by the following percentages: For more details see grading page.

Honor Code

Cheating on exams, plagiarism on homeworks and projects, and other forms of academic dishonesty are violations of the Duke Honor Code and will be referred to the Duke Undergraduate Judicial Board.

Computing

In the STAT 113 homepage you will find a self-guided Introduction to using MINITAB for descriptive statistics and simple statistical analyses.
Interested in a Statistics graduate program ?
pm@stat.duke.edu
last updated 8/31/98