Semester. 2011-2012 Spring

Instructor. Seçil Gergün

Room.  Faculty of Art and Sciences R-226
Phone. +903122331431
e-mail. gergun@cankaya.edu.tr
web. http://mcs.cankaya.edu.tr/~gergun

Schedule. Wednesday 11:40-13:30 (RA03) Thursday 13:40-15:30 (RB03)

Office Hours. Tuesday 10:40-11:30 Wednesday 10:40-11:30

Catalog Description.  Statistical inference. Sampling procedures. Measures of location. Measures of variability. Statistical modeling. Graphical methods. Data description. Sample spaces. Events. Algebra of events. Probability of events. Conditional probability. Bayes’ rule. Random variables. Joint random variables. Mathematical expectation. Variance. Covariance. Discrete random variables: binomial, hypergeometric, negative binomial, geometric and Poison distribution. Continuous random variables: normal, gamma and exponential distribution. Random sampling, sampling distributions. Central limit theorem. t-distribution. F-distribution.
 
Textbook. R. E. Walpole, R. H. Myers, S. L. Myers, K. Ye, Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

Reference Book. S. Ross, Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers, Academic Press, 2009.

Evaluation Criteria. Two midterm examinations (30% each), one final examination (40%).