TMA 4255 Design of Experiments and Applied Statistical Methods

Objective

Present approaches to data collection, data analysis and graphical techiques for data analysis.

Prerequisites

The course is based on TMA4240/4245 Statistics, or equivalent.

Course Description

Hypotheses testing. Design of experiments. Analysis of variance. Transformations. Estimation of uncertainty in estimates. 2^k-experiments and fractions of these. Special designs. Response surface methods. Simple and multiple linear regression. Residual plots and selection of variables. Contingency tables. Statistical process control. Non-parametric methods.

Lectures and Exercises

Lectures and exercises with the use of a computer (computing programme MINITAB). Portfolio assessment is the basis for the grade awarded in the course. This portfolio comprises a written final examination 80% and selected parts of the exercises 20%. The results for the constituent parts are to be given in %-points, while the grade for the whole portfolio (course grade) is given by the letter grading system.The course may be given in English if sufficiently many students don't master Norwegian. Retake of examination may be given as an oral examination.

Per week: 4 hours lecture, 1 hour exercises, 7 hours self study.

Course Material

R. E. Walpole, R. H. Myers, S. L. Myers and K.Ye: Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, 7th ed., Prentice Hall, 2002.

Responsible Professor

Assoc. Professor John Sølve Tyssedal