This page holds material developed over several offerings of a “graduate service course” in applied statistics for engineers and physical scientists at Iowa State University.
Below is a set of notes (really, an extended outline) of such a course based primarily on the book Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis by Vardeman and Jobe.
The book Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis by Vardeman and Jobe, originally published by Duxbury/Thompson Learning/Cengage is now available for download under a (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International license through the Iowa State University Digital Press. It can be found at:
https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/plugins/books/127/
and has been assigned the DOI
https://doi.org/10.31274/isudp.2023.127
This book is essentially a revision/second edition of Statistics for Engineering Problem Solving by Vardeman that won the American Society for Engineering Education 1994 Meriam/Wiley Distinguished Author award (given biennially for “an outstanding new engineering text”).
The book has answers for end-of-section exercises. All datasets in the book are on the web page in digital form. Chapter formula sheets are on the web page. The text’s solutions manual for the end-of-chapter exercises is currently being processed for posting and will appear in due course. And there are plans underway to produce and post a supplement giving R code and output for the book’s examples.
Professor Jobe and I offer this book with the hope that it proves useful to many instructors and engineering students for years to come.
The materials on this site may be used without charge for non-commercial personal educational purposes. Any copies made of the materials must bear printed acknowledgment of their Analytics Iowa LLC source.