CENG 272 Statistical Computations
Spring 2009

Most recent announcement: June26

Announcements

Watch this space for the latest updates (If the characters do not show properly, please try viewing this page with Unicode (UTF-8) encoding). Last updated:

26.Haziran.2009 13:34 Distribution of the grades is given.

12.Haziran.2009 23:05 I will not available until the end of June. You may send an E-mail to me.

8.Haziran.2009 10:39 The evaluation of final exam papers is completed. Your final exam grades are available, check your sql server.

5.Haziran.2009 12:09 Due to some conflicts, make-up exam time is postponed to 16:00.

3.Haziran.2009 23:38 The list of the students that I have Doctor's written excuse;

• Halit Baktır – Midterm

• Çoşkun Yumoş – Midterm

• Onur Erecek – Midterm

• Mine Seda Cenkayoğlu – Midterm

• Fuat Özergil – Final (not received report yet)

31.Mayıs.2009 17:15 There will be a make-up exam on Jun 5, 2009 Friday at 14:00 (the exam time is subject to change due to conflicts with other exams). If you have any valid excuse, send an e-mail to me and then sit in this make-up exam. if you don't have any doctor's written excuse at the moment, you should either see me or just take the exam, but the result will not be valid until i received a valid report.

31.Mayıs.2009 17:10 Do not forget to biring your calculator for the exam. OK. You are ALLOWED to prepare a formulae sheet (one A4 sized paper). BUT, the improper sheets are not acceptable. A formulae sheet is just a formulae sheet. Numbers, figures on that sheet are not appropriate. I will check your sheets before the exam and inappropriate sheets will not be returned to the student. Also, DO NOT forget to bring all the necessary tables with you.

31.Mayıs.2009 17:06 Quiz4&5 grades are available, see Course Schedule section.

20.Mayıs.2009 17:16 The evaluation of midterm exam papers is completed. Your midterm grades are available, check your sql server.

3.Mayıs.2009 19:38 Quiz3 grades are available, see Course Schedule section.

29.Nisan.2009 10:48 The lecture notes for the eleventh week is published, see Course Schedule section

21.Nisan.2009 17:57 There will be no lecture in this week due to ”National Independence and Children's Holiday”.

15.Nisan.2009 00:24 The lecture notes for the nineth week is published, see Course Schedule section.

8.Nisan.2009 10:42 The lecture notes for the eigth week is published, see Course Schedule section. The midterm exam questions are available, for pdf version see Course Schedule section

3.Nisan.2009 14:51 Quiz1&2 grades are available, see Course Schedule section.

1.Nisan.2009 18:07 Do not forget to biring your calculator for the exam. You are allowed to prepare a formulae sheet (one side of A4 sized paper).

25.Mart.2009 16:05 Quiz1 grades are available, see Course Schedule section. We have a password protection mechanism (username: cankaya password: cankaya).

24.Mart.2009 17:06 The lecture notes for the sixth week is published, see Course Schedule section. Exercise sets 2 and 3 are refined. Quiz1 is available.

17.Mart.2009 16:56 The midterm exam date is announced, see Course Schedule section. (Please also check departmental announcements for possible updates)

11.Mart.2009 09:50 The lecture notes for the fourth and fifth weeks are published, see Course Schedule section.

3.Mart.2009 18:16 The lecture notes for the third week is published, see Course Schedule section.

25.Şubat.2009 10:31 The lecture notes for the second week is published, see Course Schedule section.

16.Şubat.2009 23:45 In the first lecture, there will be first metting. The lecture notes for the second week will be published soon, see Course Schedule section.

Overview

Computational statistics is statistics that uses computation, often a lot of computation, while statistical computing is computational mathematics. Both fields are hybrids, but it seems that in computational statistics the emphasis is on the statistics and in statistical computation the emphasis is on the tools.

Ceng 272 is intended as a calculus-based probability and statistics course and gives an introduction to probability theory and statistics that emphasizes 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.

Lecture Information

There are two groups for lecturing , you may attend any one of the lecture hours. You MAY have a quiz (10 minutes) for the previos week's subjects. There won't be any make-up for these quizes and they will have weight for the final grading. We have a pop-up quiz policy.

Important announcements will be posted to the Announcements section of this web page above, so please check this page frequently. You are responsible for all such announcements, as well as announcements made in lecture.

Course Outline

Text Book

Required

Readings will be assigned in Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists, 8/E by Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers,Keying Ye, Prentice Hall, 2006.

Recommended

Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 5/E by William Mendenhall, Terry Sincich, Prentice Hall, 2006. This text is only recommended rather than required. This book is useful for reference, for an alternative point of view.

Grading Criteria

• There will be a midterm and a final exam, will count 25% and 45% of your grade, respectively.

• Quiz: 15% (worst of the quizes will be discarded)

• Attendance is required and constitutes part of your course grade; 15%

Policies

• Attendance is not compulsory, but you are responsible for everything said in class.

• I encourage you to ask questions in class. You are supposed to ask questions. Don't guess, ask a question!

• You may discuss homework problems with classmates (although it is not to your advantage to do so).

• You can use ideas from the literature (with proper citation).

• You can use anything from the textbook/notes.

Course Schedule

The following schedule is tentative; it may be updated later in the semester, so check back here frequently.