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․Course Title: 457.212 Statistics for Civil & Environmental Engineers

․Course Date: Tuesday & Thursday 10:30 ~ 11:45

2009

Statistics for Civil & Environmental Engineers

․Course Room: Building 35, Room 223

․Professor: Associate Professor Young-Oh Kim

- Office: Building 35 Room 405, Tel: 880-8916, email: yokim05@snu.ac.kr

- Meeting time: Monday & Tuesday 16:00 ~ 17:30, frequently possible after reservation

․TA: Ph.D Candidate Jae-Kyoung Lee

- Office: Building 35 Room 205, Tel: 880-8354, email: myroom1@snu.ac.kr

- Meeting time: Monday ~ Thursday 9:30 ~ 10:30, frequently possible after reservation

․Lecture Note: http://hrg.snu.ac.kr or  http://eng.snu.ac.kr

․Measurement: Homework 20% + Quiz 20% + Midterm exam 30% + Final exam 30%

․Grade F Regulation: Absence over tree times or absence of exams

․Textbook

Kottegoda, N. T. and R. Ross (1997). Statistics, Probability, and Reliability for Civil and Environmental Engineers, McGraw-Hill.

․References (furnishing in TA office)

Devore,  J. L (2004). Probability and Statistics for Engineering and The Sciences, 6th Edition, Thomson Learning Inc.

Ross, S. M. (2004). Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, 3rd Edition, Elsevier Inc.

Gonick, L. and W. Smith (1993). The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, HarperPerenial,

․Softwares

EXCEL, Microsoft Corp.

STATGRAPHICS, Manugistics, Inc.

․Lecture Schedule

Week	Date	Contents	Note
1	9/1 9/3	Course Introduction Preliminary Data Analysis	Homework 1
2	9/8 9/10	Software: EXCEL for Statistics
3	9/15 9/17	Basic Probability Concept Random Variables and their Properties	Homework 2
4	9/22 9/24	Discrete Probability Distributions
5	9/29 10/1	Continuous Probability Distributions	Homework 3
6	10/6 10/8	Model Estimation
7	10/13 10/15	Hypothesis Testing	Homework 4
8	10/20 10/22	Linear Regression Midterm Preparation
9	10/27 10/29	Mid-term Exam Linear Regression	Homework 5
10	11/3 11/5	Multiple Regression
11	11/10 11/12	Monte Carlo Simulation	Homework 6
12	11/17 11/19	Risk and Reliability: Measures
13	11/24 11/26	Risk and Reliability: Failure Mode	Homework 7
14	12/1 12/3	Risk and Reliability: Advanced Topics Final Exam Preparation
15	12/8 12/10	Final Exam Closing

․The 1st Day Thinking

Why are "Uncertainties" important for civil & environmental engineers?

What is "Statistics"?

What is "Probability"?