STA 113 -- Probability and Statistics in Engineering

I will be out of town Thursday through Monday. I'm holding office hours next Tuesday 10-12 for those who have questions concerning grades, or who wish to pick up graded papers. Let me know if you can't make it during this time, and we can make other arrangements.

Happy summer vacation!

Mark Vangel

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Instructors:

Mark Vangel TAs: Kate Calder Enrique Ter Horst Gomez.
Lecture: TTh 2:15-3:30
Social Sciences, room 136. 		Rec: F 1:10-2:00pm
Social Sciences, room 136 		F 2:20pm-3:10pm
Social Sciences, room 136
Off: 217 Old Chemistry Buildg Office: Old Chem. 221 Office: Old Chem 222
Tel: 684-8064
e-mail: mark@stat.duke.edu kate@stat.duke.edu enrique@stat.duke.edu
OH: WTh 10:30-11:30 Mon 10:30-12:00
 Tues 10:45-12:00

Text

Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers by Montgomery and Runger. John Wiley and Sons.

About the course: This course is an introduction to statistical reasoning, and includes an introduction to 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.

Course Web Resources

You should refer to the course web page often. First, it provides you with links to homework assignments and solutions, exam solutions, and copies of transparencies used in class. Second, I will use this page from time to time as a "bulletin board" for communicating information related to the course. For example, if errors are discovered in homework problems, or if hints prove to be necessary, this information will appear in red at the top of the course web page. So check the web page first if you have some difficulty.

Homework

Weekly problem sets are due in recitation. If you want, you can turn them in early by putting them in your TA's mailbox in Old Chem 211. Clearly mark the section number for each group member Please clearly indicate on top of the first page of each homework assignement: Homeworks without this information will not be graded.

The lowest homework score will be dropped. Beyond this late homework will not be accepted. 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.

Only selected problems will be graded on each homework, but solutions to all problems will be provided on the web.

Homeworks will be returned in the recitation section. Please make sure to collect all your homeworks.

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 ?
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last updated Jan 17, 2000