Probability and Statistics
Data is displayed for academic year: 2023./2024.
Lectures
Exercises
Laboratory exercises
Course Description
probability, conditional probability, discrete random variables and random vectors, continuous random variables and random vectors, limit theorems, descriptive statistics, point and interval estimations, statistical tests.
Study Programmes
University undergraduate
[FER3-EN] Computing - study
(3. semester)
[FER3-EN] Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - study
(4. semester)
Learning Outcomes
- solve problems of evaluating probability of a given event
- recognize specific discrete or continuous distribution
- solve problems of evaluating expectation and variance of some distribution
- analyze given data
- solve problems of point and interval estimation
- use statistical tests
- demonstrate ability for mathematical modelling
- use critical thinking
Forms of Teaching
Lectures
4 hours per week
Exercises1 hour per week
Independent assignmentseach student must solve some problems on their own
Laboratory6 hours per semester, 2 out of those 6 hours students work on their own
Grading Method
Continuous Assessment | Exam | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Type | Threshold | Percent of Grade | Threshold | Percent of Grade | ||
Quizzes | 0 % | 10 % | 0 % | 10 % | ||
Mid Term Exam: Written | 0 % | 50 % | 0 % | |||
Final Exam: Written | 0 % | 40 % | ||||
Exam: Written | 0 % | 90 % |
Week by Week Schedule
- Probability; equally likely outcomes; geometric probability
- Conditional probability; independence; law of yotal probability; Bayes' rule
- Discrete random variables and random vectors; marginal distribution; conditional distribution
- Moments; characteristic function; generating functions
- Geometric Distribution; Binomial Distribution; Poisson Distribution
- Random variables; probability distributions; probablitiy densities, Functions of random variables
- Exponential distribution; normal distribution
- Midterm exam
- Random vectors; conditional probability distributions
- Functions of random vectors, Law of large numbers and central limit theorem
- Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode); measures of dispersion (standard deviation, variance, quantile, and IQR), Unbiased point estimations; Maximal-likelihood estimation
- Interval estimations; confidence intervals, Confidence Intervals for parameters of normal distribution
- Hypothesis testing; type of errors; parametric hypothesis testing; sampling distributions
- Hypothesis testing; type of errors; parametric hypothesis testing; sampling distributions, Pearson's Chi-squared Test (Goodness-of-fit tests, tests of independence and homogeneity)
- Final exam
Literature
(2018.), N.Elezović: Vjerojatnost i statistika, Element, Zagreb
(1989.), Ž. Pauše, Uvod u matematičku statistiku, Školska knjiga, Zagreb
(1989.), Ž. Pauše, Riješeni primjeri zadaci iz vjerojatnosti i statistike, Školska knjiga, Zagreb
For students
General
ID 209650
Winter semester
6 ECTS
L0 English Level
L2 e-Learning
60 Lectures
0 Seminar
15 Exercises
6 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises
Grading System
85 Excellent
70 Very Good
55 Good
45 Sufficient