| Week # | Topics | key dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part 1: Introduction to Probability | ||||
| 1 | Events and their Probability, Elementary Operations with Events, Total Probability Theorem, Independence, Bayes' Theorem | |||
| 2-3 | Random Variables and Vectors, Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions | Mini-quiz 1 | ||
| 4 | Functions of Random Variables and Derived Distributions | |||
| 5-6 | Expectation of Random Variables and Functions of Random Variables Moments of Variables and Vectors | Mini-quiz 2 | ||
| 7 | Conditional Second Moment Analysis | |||
| 8 | Selected Distribution Models: Normal, Lognormal, Extreme, Multivariate Normal Distributions | Mini-quiz 3 | ||
| Part 2: Introduction to System Reliability | ||||
| 9 | Time-invariant Second-moment Reliability Analysis and Time-invariant Full-distribution Reliability Analysis | Mini-quiz 4 | ||
| Part 3: Introduction to Statistics | ||||
| 10 | Point Estimation of Distribution Parameters: Methods of Moments and Maximum Likelihood, Bayesian Analysis | |||
| 11 | Simple and Multiple Linear Regression | Mini-quiz 5 | ||
| 12 | Final Exam | |||