Introductory Statistics for Engineering Experimentation / Edition 1

by Peter R. Nelson, Karen A.F. Copeland, Marie Coffin

Overview

The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) introduced a criterion starting with their 1992-1993 site visits that "Students must demonstrate a knowledge of the application of statistics to engineering problems." Since most engineering curricula are filled with requirements in their own discipline, they generally do not have time for a traditional two semesters of probability and statistics. Attempts to condense that material into a single semester often results in so much time being spent on probability that the statistics useful for designing and analyzing engineering/scientific experiments is never covered. In developing a one-semester course whose purpose was to introduce engineering/scientific students to the most useful statistical methods, this book was created to satisfy those needs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780125154239
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/14/2003
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Summarizing Data; Models for Experiment Outcomes; Models for the Random Error; Inference for a Single Population; Comparing Two Populations; One-Factor Multi-Sample Experiments; Experiments with Two Factors; Multi-Factor Experiments; Inference for Regression Models; Response Surface Methods; Appendices; References.

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The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) introduced a criterion starting with their 1992-1993 site visits that "Students must demonstrate a knowledge of the application of statistics to engineering problems." Since most engineering curricula are quite full with requirements in their own discipline, they generally do not have time for a traditional two semesters of probability and statistics. Attempts to condense that material into a single semester often results in so much time being spent on probability that the statistics useful for designing and analyzing engineering/scientific experiments is never covered. In developing a one-semester course whose purpose was to introduce engineering/scientific students to some useful statistical methods, this text was created to satisfy these needs.