Statistics and Probability for Safety, Reliability and Quality

Course Code

EG5060

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr Srinivas Sriramula

Pre-requisites

N/A

Notes

For students studying for MSc Safety & Reliability Engineering for Oil and Gas.

Overview

Revision of elementary concepts in statistics and probability, important uni-variate distributions; the bi-variate and multi variate distribution normal distribution; parameter estimation and goodness-of-fit; analysis of statistical data; treatment of outliners; analysis of variance; introduction to continuous and discrete stochastic processes, Gaussian, Poisson and Markov processes.

Structure

Assessment

20% coursework, 80% final exam