ECS526 Course Schedule (Updated Fall 2018):
Textbooks: Walpole & Myers (W/M); Montgomery & Runger (M/R)
Week AppDat Ch.W/M Ch.M/R Topics
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1 8/29 1 - 2 1 Intro/Descriptive/Probs/Events
2 9/5 3 - 4 2 Laws & Axioms of Random Vars.
3 9/12 5 - 6 3 Discrete Distributions/Parameters
4 9/19 7 4 Continuous Distributions/Paramtrs.
5 9/26 8 5 Transformations/First Test
6 10/3 9 - 17 7 - 8 Confidence Intervals/Samplng Dist.
7 10/10 10 9 One Sample Hypothesis Tests & CI
8 10/17 10 10 Two Sample Hypothesis Tests & CI
9 10/24 10 15 NonParametric, GOF & other tests
10 10/31 8 - 10 16 Quality Control/Second Test
11 11/7 11 11 Regression Analysis & Applicats.
12 11/14 11 - 13 13 Analysis of Variance & Applicats
13 11/21 12 7 Thanksgivings Break
14 11/28 14 14 DOE, Reliability & Applicats.
15 12/06 8 - 17 3 - 8 Group Project Presentation
16 12/12 8 - 17 3 - 8 Final Project/ANCOVA/DOE/SPC/Rel
Course Readings:
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Quality and Reliability Institute Web page:
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http://ecs.syr.edu/faculty/romeu/QR&CII.htm
https://web.cortland.edu/matresearch/QR&CIInstPg.htm
Walpole and Myers Textbook (9th Edition) in the Web:
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https://nnquan.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/probability-statistics-for-engineers-scientists-9th-edition-walpole.pdf
Statistical Education of American Engineers
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http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/StatEdAmerEng2012Q2-art3.pdf
E-Readings by (approximate) Week:
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Note: some of these Links become obsolete, as DSIAC is constantly chanching them. These papes can be found,
===== alternatively, in the Quality and Reliability Institute (QR&CII) web page:
https://web.cortland.edu/matresearch/QR&CIInstPg.htm
or in the DSIACLegacy Journals Web Page:
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/journals/legacy/
Week 1: Intro/Descriptive Stats/Probability.
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Teaching Engineering Statistics to Practicing Engineers
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/17/4A1_ROME.pdf
Random Variables and Statistical Distributions:
A) AMPTIAC Newsletter.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167.5518&rep=rep1&type=pdf
B) RAC Newsletter:
https://www.dsiac.org/sites/default/files/journals/1ST_Q2001.pdf
Week 2: Probability Laws/Random Variables
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Empirical Assessment of Normal and Lognormal Distribution Assumptions
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/empirical-assessment-normal-and-lognormal-distribution-assumptions
Statistical Assumptions of an Exponential Distribution
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/statistical-assumptions-exponential-distribution
Graphical Comparisons of Two Populations
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/graphical-comparisons-two-populations
Week 3: Discrete Distributions & Parameters
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Empirical Assessment of the Weibull Distribution
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/empirical-assessment-weibull-distribution
Reliability Estimation for the Exponential Life
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/reliability-estimations-exponential-life
Week 4: Continuous Distributions & Parameters
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Parallel Systems Reliability
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/understanding-series-and-parallel-systems-reliability
Availability of Repairable Systems
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/availability
Week 5: Sample Size. Transformations. First Test (Probs)
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Determining the Experimental Sample Size
http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/ExperSampSizeQR&CII.pdf
Censored Data
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/censored-data
Week 6: Confidence Interval & Sampling Distributions
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Reliability Statistics II: On Estimation and Testing (Page 4)
https://www.dsiac.org/sites/default/files/journals/3q2001.pdf
Statistical Confidence
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/statistical-confidence
Week 7: One Sample Hypothesis Tests.
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Reliability Estimation for the Exponential Life
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/reliability-estimations-exponential-life
Understanding Logistics
http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/LogisticsREL_V1N3.pdf
Week 8: Two Sample Hypothesis Tests
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The Chi-Square: a Large-Sample Goodness of Fit Test
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/chi-square-large-sample-goodness-fit-test
OC Functions and Acceptance Sampling Plans
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/operating-characteristic-oc-functions-and-acceptance-sampling-plans
Week 9: Goodness-of-Fit & NonParametrics Tests
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The Kolmogorov-Smirnov: a Small-Sample Goodness of Fit Test
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/kolmogorov-simirnov-goodness-fit-test-small-samples
The Anderson-Darling: a Small-Sample Goodness of Fit Test
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/anderson-darling-goodness-fit-test-small-samples-assumptions
Week 10: Aplications to QC. Second Test (Inferential).
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Quality Control Charts
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/quality-control-charts
Combining data
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/censored-data
Week 11: Intro to Modeling in Regression
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Reliability Statistics III:
On Statistical Modeling of Reliability Data
a) Journal of the Reliability Analysis Center. Vol. 9, Number 4.
https://www.dsiac.org/sites/default/files/journals/4q2001.pdf
C) Journal of AMPTIAC
http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/32/31672.pdf
On Regression Analysis
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/regression-analysis
Week 12: Intro to Modeling in ANOVA.
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Minitab and Pizza: a Workshop Experiment
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237389660_Minitab_and_Pizza_A_Workshop_Experiment
Design and Evaluation of Aquatic Ecosystems via Simulation
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.105.349
Week 13: Thanksgivings Break
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Week 14: Case Studies in Modeling and Analysis
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A regression application in Reliability. Chance Magazine, ASA.
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v10n3/datasets.caroni.html
Measuring Cost Avoidance with Messy Data
Proc. of the 2004 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS)
http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/RAMSPaper.pdf
A Discussion on Software Reliability Models
Journal of the Reliability Analysis Center. Vol. 8, Number 1.
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/legacy_journals/journal-rac-vol-8-no-1- discussion-software-reliability-modeling-problems
Week 15: Advanced Modeling Techniques
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Design of Experiments for Reliability Improvement
https://www.quanterion.com/design-of-experiments-for-reliability-improvement/
Understanding Series and Parallel Systems Reliability
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/understanding-series-and-parallel-systems-reliability
Operations Research and Statistical Techniques
http://web.cortland.edu/romeu/ORStatTechInDataMine.pdf
Understanding Exponential Sequential Tests
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/understanding-exponential-sequential-tests
Understanding Binomial Sequential Tests
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/understanding-binomial-sequential-testing
Use of Bayesian Techniques for Reliability
https://www.dsiac.org/resources/reference_documents/use-bayesian-techniques-reliability
Determining the Experimental Sample Size.
Journal of the Systems Reliability Center (SRC)
3rd Quarter 2005; pp. 11-21
Research Presentations and Papers on the Environment and Ecology
https://web.cortland.edu/romeu/EnvirActivity2005.pdf
Selected Publications dealing with Coronavarus Pandemic
https://web.cortland.edu/matresearch/CORONAVARUSListEngNov2020.pdf
Selected Publications dealing with Scholarly Research
https://web.cortland.edu/romeu/research.html
Additional Readings, Case Studies and Examples
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NIST Engineering Statistics Data Sets:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/education/datasets.htm#regression
Heat Flow Meter Study:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section4/eda428.htm
Ceramic Strength Study:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section4/eda42a.htm
Beam Deflection Study:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section4/eda425.htm
Filter Transmittance Study:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section4/eda426.htm
Load Cell Calibration Study:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmd/section6/pmd61.htm
Updated VIII/2021