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Probability and Statistics

Code 11556
Year 2
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload TP(60H)
Scientific area Mathematics
Entry requirements None.
Mode of delivery Face to face.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes The aims of this Course Unit are:
- Encourage critical skills in constructing confidence intervals, formulating hypotheses and prediction and interpreting results;
- Encourage the application of probabilistic and statistical methods and techniques;
-Basic - Demonstrates general culture for the Probability and Statistics: historical evolution of concepts; expertise critical sense in arguing ideas.
-Scientific - Demonstrates knowledge of basic Math applied to Informatics; demonstrates basic knowledge of Probability and Statistics
-Operational - Know and dominates the basic mathematical language used in Probability and Statistics;
-Cross Outcomes - Understands and demonstrates general principles of ethics and morality, ability for teamwork, ability to keep records organized.
Syllabus - Combinatorics;
- Probability theory;
- Random variables. Probability distributions;
- Theoretical distributions;
- Interval estimation;
- Hypotheses tests;
- Nonparametric tests;
- Linear regression.
Main Bibliography - Principal:
- Guimarães, R. e Cabral, J. (1997). Estatística. McGraw-Hill.
- Murteira, B., Ribeiro, C., Andrade e Silva, J. e Pimenta, C. (2002). Introdução à Estatística. McGraw-Hill.
- Pedrosa, A. E Gama, S. (2004). Introdução Computacional à Probabilidade e Estatística. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisboa.
- Pestana, D. Velosa, S. (2002). Introdução à Probabilidade e à Estatística. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisboa.

-Complementary:
- Mood, A., Graybill, F. and Boes, D. (1985). Introduction to the Theory of Statistics. 3rd edition. International Student Edition.
- Draper, N. R. , Smith, H. (1998), Applied Regression Analysis, John Wiley and Sons, 3ª Edição.

Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2020-01-17

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