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Course Catalog 01/02


Business Adm and Social Science

IEK017 Mathematical Statistics 3.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q4

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Kerstin Vännman Bitr prof


PREREQUISITES
Engineering Mathematics corresponding to part 1-3 of Mathematics MAM048.

COURSE AIM
¥ To give the student knowledge about the basic concepts within probability and statistical inference;
¥ to give an ability to apply some fundamental statistical methods for analysis of data.

CONTENTS
The course deals with basic concepts in probability and statistics like EDA, the concept of probability, random variables, measure of location and spread, distributions, the central limit theorem, estimation, and confidence intervals for parameters in wellknown distributions and for comparisons between means.

TEACHING


EXAMINATION

COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS/CREDITS
Laboratory work 0.60ECTS
Written exam 2.40ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Vännman, K.: Matematisk statistik. Grundkurs för tekniska högskolor, Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1990. (In Swedish.)
Complementary material from the Division of Quality Technology and Statistics. (In Swedish.)


REMARKS


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Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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