PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
Course Name Code Regular Semester ECTS Credits Credits Lecture 3
Application 2
Probability and Statistics 0252062 4 5 3 Laboratory (Hour/Week) -
Course Language Turkish
Compulsory or Elective Compulsory
Equipment Board, Overhead Projector, Projector, Notebook, CD
Instructor Department of Mathematics
Course Contents Definition of Statistics/ Kinds of Statistics/ The fields where statistics is used/ Variables/ Graphics and Frequency Distribution/ The arrangement and the collection of data/ Means/ The variation Measurements/ Probability Theory: Conditional probability/ Multiplication Rule/ Dependent and independent Events/ Bayes Rule Random variable/ Probability Function/ Distribution Function/ Expected value/ Variance and standard deviation/ Continuous random variable/ Non-continuous distributions/ Continuous distributions
Course Objectives
  1. To gain the general mathematical background
  2. To organize the procedures which are made systematically or naturally
  3. To evaluate and arrange and collect the data which are obtained via observation or experimental
  4. To understand the relation between mathematics in Engineering and the social science
  5. To improve the team work
Course Outcomes
(The knowledge and the skills that the student will gain at the end of the course)
  1. The skill of collecting the data in modelling
  2. The knowledge for the arrangement and evaluation of data collection
  3. To make the required arrangements and to take measures in respect to the statistical results.
  4. The skill of the adaptation when the basis information is given
  5. The skill of joining the team work
  6. The skill of solution to the problem using the theorical and statistical techniques.
Textbook
  1. İ. Sezginman, Olasılık Teori ve Problemleri, Eğitim Yayınları,İst,1995.
  2. F.K.Gülçür,İstatistik Araştırma Metodları, İÜ fen Fak.Yayını,1973
  3. Ö.Serper,Uygulamalı İstatistik 1-2,Filiz Kitapevi,İst,1993
  4. Lecture Notes
Additional References
  1. J.S.Milton,J.C.Arnould,İntroduction to Probability and Statistics,McGraw-Hill,1995
  2. Süeda Moralı,İştatistik Teorisine Giriş, TC İTÜKütüphanesi,1973
  3. Bener, A.Matematiksel İstatistik,İst,1992.
Prerequisite Courses -
Prerequisite Subjects Enough knowledge the fundamental mathematics, Enough knowledge the compute programming languages, the knowledge of derivate and integral
Homework/Project To provide learning of lecture in the term by giving problems as homework about the topics which are given
Laboratory -
Computer Applications The homework, application and the theorical topics will be supported by using internet and computer
Additional Practices Investigation of publication and making research in the library, Data-Show
Course Evaluation Criteria
Number Effective Proportion %
Midterm Exams 2 40
Quiz - -
Homework 5 10
Term Projects - -
Term Papers 1 10
Laboratory - -
Other - -
Final Exam 1 40
Division of Course Credit (%) Basic Sciences - %
Basic Engineering and Departmental Core Courses - %
Departmental Core Courses 100 %
Social Sciences - %

WEEKLY COURSE PLAN
Week Subject
1 Definition of statistics, Kinds of Statistics, the fields where statistics is used, Continuous distributions
2 Variables, Graphs and Frequency Distribution
3 The arrangement and the collection of data
4 Means: sensitive and insensitive means
5 The variation Measurements
6 Probability Theory : the statistical definition and the fundamental concepts: the postulation of Probability, Space of Probability
7 Conditional probability, Multiplication Rule, dependent and independent Events, Bayes Rule and applications
8 1st Midterm exam
9 Random variable, Probability Function, Distribution Function, Expected value, variance and standart deviation, continuous random variable
10 Non-continuous distributions: uniform, Bernoulli
11 Non-continuous distributions :Binomial, Poisson, Hipergeometric distributions
12 Continuous distributions : Uniform and Cauchy non- distributions
13 2nd Midterm exam
14 Continuous distributions :Normal, Exponential, Gamma and Application
15 Continuous distributions :Normal, Exponential, Gamma and Application

Prepared by Department of Mathematics Date 01.01.2007