General Information

Course Description

Tuesdays 14:15-16:00 in F2
Fridays 10:15-12:00 in F3

Thursdays 11.00:12.00 in R51 or computer lab R52

Sara Martino
Email: martino [at] math [dot] ntnu [dot] no
Room 1122, 11th floor, Sentralbygg II, Gløshaugen.

Rupali Akerkar
Email: akerkar [at] math [dot] ntnu [dot] no
Room 1124, 11th floor, Sentralbygg II, Gløshaugen.

The main source will be the book Rausand & Høyland: System Reliability Theory: Models, Statistical Methods, and Applications, 2nd Edition. Wiley 2004.

Notes/copies about certain topics will be handed out. Foils from the lectures can be downloaded as pdf-files from this website.

Supplementary reading (available at Tapir):

Jayant V. Deshpande & Sudha G. Purohit: Life time data: statistical models and methods, World Scientific, 2005.

For background in basic statistics: Walpole, Myers, Myers and Ye: Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Prentice Hall.

For background in stochastic processes: Sheldon M. Ross: Introduction to probability models, Academic Press.

June 01 2010. Written 4 hours (9.00-13.00)

Examination aids: C
"Specified, written and handwritten examination support materials are permitted. A specified, simple calculator is permitted."

Permitted aids at the exam are:

• Calculator HP30S with empty memory.
• Statistiske tabeller og formler (Tapir forlag)
• K. Rotman: Matematisk formelsamling
• One yellow paper (A4 with stamp) with your own formulas and notes

You get the yellow A4 paper with stamp at the department office of Department of Mathematical Sciences, 7th floor, Central building 2.