MVE591 Mathematical statistics
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This page provides detailed weekly plan of the course. Other information, including the assessment, literature and the structure is provided on a separate Course plan (Kurs-PM) page.
Purpose and learning objectives
The course MVE591, Mathematical Statistics gives introduction to probability and statistical theory as well as to modern computational statistical methods provided by Matlab and Python language. It is intended for 2nd year Engineering students with general mathematical knowledge, no other prerequisites are assumed.
On successful completion of the course the student should be able to
- identify and describe problems arising in technical studies for which the treatment requires use of fundamental concepts and methods from Probability theory and Mathematical Statistics;
- summarise data by deriving summary statistics and use graphical methods for their representation;
- formulate probabillistic models for real-world situations and analyse them with the help of probability tools, e.g., conditional probabulities, random variables, distributions;
- understand the random sampling method to gather representative statistics from a population and master various estimation approached for its main characteristics: the mean and variance;
- be able to check statistical hypotheses on the values of the mean and the variance for one and two samples;
- study linear dependence between two and multiple variates using the tools of regression analysis, analysis of variance and multiple regression.
Lecturer
Examinator: Prof. Sergei Zuyev
Lecturer: Prof. Sergei Zuyev
Teaching Assistants:
Marcus Baaz marcus.baaz@fcc.chalmers.se
Isac Boström isac.bostrom@chalmers.se
David Lund dlund@chalmers.se
Alice Svärdström alicelinnea@live.se
Student Representatives:
TKMAS albin.g.hagen@gmail.com Albin Ahagen
TKMAS tim_albertsson@hotmail.com Tim Albertsson
TKMAS guseno99@gmail.com Gustav Enocson
TKMAS Mans.gustafsson@hotmail.se Måns Gustafsson
TKMAS 2002gustav@gmail.com Gustav Haller
TKMAS danne1432@gmail.com Daniel Jinneryd
TKMAS a.spreitz@hotmail.com Adam Spreitz
Minutes of the Student representatives-Staff meetings
Minutes of the meeting held on 2023-04-26
Minutes of the meeting held on 2023-05-25
Programme
The teaching is organised in the form of lectures and assisted computer labs. The course timetable still follows TimeEdit. There are four alternative lab sessions assigned to the course each week, but the students are supposed to participate only at one of these. The booking is done via the VLE system, see Course plan (kurs-PM) page for what is VLE.
Topics covered:
- Probability:
- Probability, events, basic combinatorics.
- Random variables, expectation and variance.
- Main distributions: Binomial, Poisson, Exponential, Normal.
- Central Limit Theorem and Poisson Theorem and their applications.
- Statistics:
- Descriptive statistics. Sample mean and variance.
- Estimates: point and interval, sampling.
- Hypotheses testing: one and two-sample tests.
- Regression and correlation, multiple regression.
Weekly plan
| Week | Day | Content | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Tuesday | Two Lectures (lecture notes will be posted on VLE, see Course plan for what is VLE) | |
| Thursday | VLE Study 1 | ||
| Tuesday | Two Lectures | ||
| 13 | Thursday | VLE Study 2 | |
| 15 | Friday | VLE Study 3 | |
| 16 | Thursday | VLE Study 4 | |
| 17 | Wednesday | 9-11am Test 1 | |
| 17 | Friday | Lecture | |
| 18 | Monday | Lecture | |
| 18 | Tuesday OR Thursday | VLE Study 5 | |
| 19 | Monday | Lecture | |
| Monday | VLE Study 6 | ||
| 20 | Monday | Lecture | |
| Tuesday OR Wednesday | VLE Study 7 | ||
| 21 | Thursday 25/05 | 2-4pm Test 2 | |
| 22 | Thursday 1/06 | 9-11am Exam | |
| 34 | Thursday 24/08 | Resit examination 14:00-16:00 in SB-D040 | |
| 39 | Thursday 28/09 | 2nd resit 13:00-15:00 in SB-D020 |