Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2020-21

ISE 3040 - Fundamentals of Statistics


To prepare technology students to understand and use statistics to evaluate and make decisions about processes and results that they encounter in their engineering and technology jobs. Topics include probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, ANOVA, and simple linear regression.

Requisites: MATH 1300 or 1350 or 163A or 2301 and WARNING: No credit for both this course and the following (always deduct credit for first course taken): ECON 3810 or GEOG 2710 or GEOL 3050 or ISE 3200 or MATH 2500 or PSY 1110 or QBA 2010
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code: 2AS
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to identify discrete and continuous random variables and perform descriptive statistics.
  • Students will be able to calculate probabilities, conditional probabilities, permutations and combinations.
  • Students will be able to conduct hypothesis tests and calculate confidence intervals on population parameters utilizing point estimates from random samples.
  • Students will be able to perform simple one-way ANOVA for randomized experiments.
  • Students will be able to calculate simple linear regression and evaluate the strength and significance of the relationship between X and Y.
  • Students will be able to perform Goodness of Fit Tests.


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