King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

STAT319: PROBABILITY & STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS

Lab Syllabus Semester 192

Instructor: Raid F. Anabosi

Office: Building 5, Room 416 Phone: 1851 Email: anabosir@kfupm.edu.sa

Office Hours: UTR 8:00 – 8:50 in 5-416, and 10:00 – 10:50 in 59-1003

Check Blackboard regularly for announcements

Objectives:

This Lab of STAT 319 is designed to help the students in the following ways:

1. To easily understand and appreciate the practicability of the concepts taught in the
STAT 319 curriculum.
2. To develop their ability to properly analyze and solve probability and statistics
problems, and reasonably interpret their results.
3. To learn how to use MINITAB in solving a wide range of statistical problems in
real world, since statistics has a lot of application in almost all the fields of life.

Assessment
Assessment for this Lab will be based on lab work, participation, attendance, and three lab
tests, as following:

Activity Weight Marks

Attendance and Lab Participation 10% 02

3 Lab Tests 90% 18

Total 100% 20
 Syllabus(tentative):
(Suggested weekly coverage of material and lab tests schedule)
Section
Week Topic From STATISTICA
Manual

Week 01
No Labs
Jan. 19 - 23
Week 02 Descriptive Statistics: Graphical description of data (by hand): 2.3 & 2.4
Jan. 26 - 30 Stem and Leaf Plot, Frequency table, Shapes of distributions.
Week 03
Histogram, Frequency plot, Frequency polygon, Bar chart and Pie chart. 2.5-2.6
Feb. 2 - 6

Week 04 Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures (by hand):

Feb. 9 - 13 Common measures of location: Mean, Median, Mode. 2.7
Common Measures of variation: Range, Variance, Standard Deviation. Empirical
Rule, Coefficient of Variation, Coefficient of Skewness.

Week 05 Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures (by hand)(continue):

2.7, 2.9 & 2.10
Feb. 16 – 20 Percentiles, Quartiles, Box-plot, approximate Mean & Variance for Grouped data.
Week 06
Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures (by MINITAB): 2.8
Feb. 23 - 27
Week 07 Lab test 1 – Material: From the beginning to the end of section 2.10
Lab Test 1
Mar. 1 - 5
Week 08 Discrete Probability Distributions (by MINITAB):
Mar. 8 - 12 Binomial, Geometric, Hypergeometric, & Poisson Distributions 3.1-3.4
Week 09 Continuous Probability Distributions (by MINITAB): 4.2-4.4
Mar. 15 - 19 Normal distribution, Exponential, t, F, and other Distributions 5.4 & 5.5
Week 10 Sampling Distributions of Sums and Means and the Central Limit Theorem
Mar. 22 – 26 Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution 5.1 & 5.2

Week 11
Lab test 2 – Material: Discrete, Continuous & Sampling Distributions Lab Test 2
Mar. 29 – Apr. 2
Week 12 Confidence Intervals and Testing (by MINITAB) for the Population Mean, 6.1 & 6.5
Apr. 5 - 9 and for Population Proportion. 7.1 & 7.3
Simple and Multiple Regression(by MINITAB):
Scatter diagram, Correlation coefficient, Estimating the line of best fit, Sources of
Week 13 variation, Checking the model assumptions, Confidence Interval estimation of 8.1 – 8.9
Apr. 12 - 16
regression parameter, Prediction Interval (PI) for a future observation yo , Testing
the slope of the regression line
Multiple Linear Regression(by MINITAB):
Week 14 Multiple Linear Regression Model, Hypothesis Tests in Multiple Linear 8.10
Apr. 19 - 23 Regression, Confidence Intervals in Multiple Linear Regression, Prediction of New
Observations, Residual Analysis
Week 15
Lab test 3 – Material Covered: Estimation, Testing and Regression. Lab Test 3
Apr. 26 - 30