EG501E: Statistics And Probability For Safety, Reliability And Quality

EG501E: STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY FOR SAFETY, RELIABILITY AND QUALITY (2024-2025)

Last modified: 20 Jun 2025 15:06

Course Overview

The aim of this course is to get an understanding of applied probability and statistics. Students will be able to handle variables of a random nature, deal with parameters of different distributions and data of scattering nature.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Term	First Term	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr Srinivas Sriramula

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Engineering (EG) (Studied)
Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

This course provides mathematical foundation of the probabilistic analysis of random variables. The course is an extension to the undergraduate level of the subject. This course is a pre-requisite for the module on Advanced Methods for Risk and Reliability Assessment.

The following modules will be covered in the course:

1. Revision of elementary concepts in statistics and probability.

2. Important uni-variate distributions.

3. The bi-variate and multi-variate normal distribution.

4. Parameter estimation and goodness-of-fit.

5. Analysis of statistical data.

6. Treatment of outliers.

7. Analysis of variance.

8. Introduction to continuous and discrete stochastic processes.

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 21st September 2026 for Term 1 and Full Year courses and 8th January 2027 for Term 2 courses.

Summative Assessments

Online Test

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Learning Outcomes

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Lab Report: Individual

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Online Test

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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

Resubmission of failed elements

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Course Learning Outcomes

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Factual	Remember	ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide.

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