Overview

• Ceng 272 is intended as a calculus-based probability and statistics course and gives an introduction to probability theory and statistics that emphasises the mathematical foundations required to understand probability models and statistical methods.
• Among the topics covered will be;
  • To introduce various statistical methodologies and their applications in data analysis.
  • To provide students with a good understanding of the theory of probability and the basic methods of statistics.
  • Data, Graphical Descriptive Techniques. Use statistical concepts such as means, variances and various types of graphs to analyze datasets.
  • Understand basic concepts in probability including sample spaces, events, probability rules, conditional probability, independent events and Bayes rule.
  • Random variables and their distributions.
  • Sampling distributions - Sampling, law of large numbers, central limit theorem.
  • Understand confidence intervals and perform statistical inference such as hypothesis testing and regression??