1.010 Uncertainty in Engineering, Fall 2004

Veneziano, Daniele

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Veneziano, Daniele

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Uncertainty in Engineering

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Abstract

This undergraduate class serves as an introduction to probability and statistics, with emphasis on engineering applications. The first segment discusses events and their probability, Bayes' Theorem, discrete and continuous random variables and vectors, univariate and multivariate distributions, Bernoulli trials and Poisson point processes, and full-distribution uncertainty propagation and conditional analysis. The second segment deals with second-moment representation of uncertainty and second-moment uncertainty propagation and conditional analysis. The final segment covers random sampling, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and linear regression. Many of the concepts covered in class are illustrated with real-world examples from various areas of engineering.

Date issued

2004-12

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46355

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1.010-Fall2004

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Keywords

statistics, decision analysis, random variables and vectors, uncertainty propagation, conditional distributions, second-moment analysis, system reliability, Bayesian analysis and risk-based decision, estimation of distribution parameters, hypothesis testing, simple and multiple linear regressions, Poisson and Markov processes

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Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) - Archived