Semester/Trimester when the Course Unit is Delivered:
Spring Semester 
Name of Lecturer(s):
Konstantinos Tsaltas
Andreas Makrides
 
Lectures/Week:
2 (1.5 hours per lecture) 
Laboratories/week:
1 (1 hours per lecture) 
Tutorials/Week:
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Course Purpose and Objectives:
To offer to engineering students basic knowledge of probability and statistics with emphasis on applications to their discipline.
 
Learning Outcomes:
With the completion of the course, students are expected to have acquired the basic knowledge of probability and statistics and be able to apply various statistical techniques to engineering problems
 
Prerequisites:
High school mathematics 
Co-requisites:
Not Applicable 
Course Content:
Descriptive statistics, measures of central tendency and variation, probability, exponential families of distributions, point estimation, sufficiency, completeness, confidence intervals for the mean, for the variance, for the difference of two means, for the ratio of variances, hypothesis testing, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, type I and type II error, tests for the mean with large or small samples, tests for comparing means and variances, linear regression, analysis of variance.
 
Teaching Methodology:
Lectures (3 hours), recitation class (1 hour)
 
Bibliography:
Devore J.: Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, Brooks/Cole 2012
Ross, S.: Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Academic Press, 2004.