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MAE 108Probability and Statistical Methods for Engineering

4 units · MAE · UC San Diego

Probability theory, conditional probability, Bayes theorem, random variables, densities, expected values, characteristic functions, central limit theorem. Engineering reliability, elements of estimation, random sampling, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals. Curve fitting and data analysis. Students cannot receive credit for MAE 108 and ECE 109, ECON 120A, MATH 180A, MATH 183, MATH 186, or SE 125.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “MATH 18 or 20F.”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

One of the options in (4)

  • AeroEng w/Spec Astrodynm&SpcAp
  • AeroEng w/Spec FlightDyn&Contl
  • Mechanical Engineering with a Specialization in Controls and Robotics (B.S.)
  • Mechanical Engineering with a Specialization in Renewable Energy and Environmental Flows (B.S.)
What it opens up

Courses that list MAE 108 as a prerequisite (33)

  • COGS 118B Introduction to Machine Learning
  • COGS 118D Computational Modeling and Analysis of Human Behavior
  • CSE 150A Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision-Making
  • CSE 150B Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Search and Reasoning
  • CSE 151A Machine Learning: Learning Algorithms
  • CSE 151B Deep Learning
  • CSE 153 Machine Learning for Music
  • CSE 153R Machine Learning for Music
  • CSE 156 Statistical Natural Language Processing
  • CSE 158 Recommender Systems and Web Mining
  • CSE 158R Recommender Systems and Web Mining
  • DSC 140A Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning
  • DSC 140B Representation Learning
  • DSC 148 Introduction to Data Mining
  • ECE 155 Digital Communications Theory
  • ECE 157A Communications Systems Laboratory I
  • ECON 120B Econometrics B
  • ECON 125 The Science of Population
  • ECON 129 Cities, Inequality, Innovation
  • ECON 171 Decisions Under Uncertainty
  • ECON 190 An Introduction to Research in Economics
  • MAE 145 Introduction to Robotic Planning and Estimation
  • MAE 146 Introduction to Machine Learning Algorithms
  • MAE 182 Spacecraft Guidance and Navigation
  • MATH 181D Statistical Learning
  • MATH 181F Sampling Surveys and Experimental Design
  • MATH 189 Exploratory Data Analysis and Inference
  • MGT 100 Customer Analytics
  • MGT 151R Business Analytics
  • MGT 153 Information Technology in Business Analytics
  • MGT 160 Experiments in Firms
  • MGT 180 Business Finance
  • MGT 180R Business Finance