Unit STATISTICS AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
- Course
- Mechanical engineering
- Study-unit Code
- 70A00209
- Curriculum
- Gestionale
- Teacher
- Giuseppe Saccomandi
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa integrata
OPERATION RESEARCH
| Code | 70097005 |
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| CFU | 5 |
| Teacher | Giuseppe Saccomandi |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Matematica, informatica e statistica |
| Academic discipline | MAT/09 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italiano but with on-line lectures on English |
| Contents | Basic Methods of Operation Research |
| Reference texts | https://www.youtube.com/yongwang |
| Educational objectives | The ability to solve some linear optimisation problem with and without software tools. |
| Prerequisites | Calculus |
| Teaching methods | Classical |
| Other information | None |
| Learning verification modality | Oral and written examination |
| Extended program | o Linear Programming o Simplex Algorithm and Goal Programming o Sensitivity Analysis and Duality o Transportation, Assignment, and Transshipment Problems o Network Models o Integer Programming o Nonlinear Programming o Decision Making under Uncertainty o Game Theory o Inventory Theory o Markov Chains o Dynamic Programming o Queuing Theory |
STATISTICS
| Code | 70026681 |
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| CFU | 4 |
| Teacher | Paolo Carbone |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Affine/integrativa |
| Area | Attività formative affini o integrative |
| Academic discipline | SECS-S/02 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Introduction to statistics: continuous, discrete and mixed random variables. Probability density functions. Probability distribution functions. Joint random variables. |
| Reference texts | Roy. D. Yates, David J. Goodman, Probability and Stochastic Processes, John Wiley & Sons Inc; 2nd International Edition, 2004. Handouts by the instructor. |
| Educational objectives | The ability to use basic tools of statistics in the framework of engineering applications. |
| Prerequisites | Nessuno |
| Teaching methods | Classical |
| Other information | None |
| Learning verification modality | Oral and written examination |
| Extended program | Descriptive statistics: measures of location and variation, frequency tables, bar diagrams, histograms, other diagrams and tools for visualisation. Introductory combinatorics and probability theory. Probability distributions: binomial, Poisson, normal, exponential. Engineering applications, selected examples. |