The use of probability models and statistical methods for analysing data has become common practice in virtually all scientific disciplines. This Module aims to introduce to students the principles of probability and statistics; probability and random variables; discrete and continuous densities and distribution functions; expectation and variance; normal (Gaussian), binomial and Poisson distributions; statistical estimation and hypothesis testing; method of least squares, correlation and regression. The emphasis is on statistics and quality control methods for engineers.
The Module aims to introduce students to various properties and definitions of Fourier series and Fourier transforms, Partial Differential Equations, Descriptive statistics and Introduction to probability. The module will deal with these topics at a basic level, leaving more advanced techniques to the specialist courses in Engineering.