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Overview
International students who require a Stanford-sponsored I-20 visa must maintain a minimum of 8 units throughout the Summer Quarter.
Stanford Summer Session provides high-achieving and ambitious students a transformative educational experience at a world-class university.
By combining challenging academics with a rich array of extra-curricular programming, Stanford Summer Session successfully shares the University’s culture of innovation, academic excellence, and global responsibility.
Program highlights
The Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers summer course is offered at Stanford Summer.
Probability: random variables, independence, and conditional probability; discrete and continuous distributions, moments, distributions of several random variables.
Topics in mathematical statistics: random sampling, point estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, non-parametric tests, regression and correlation analyses; applications in engineering, industrial manufacturing, medicine, biology, and other fields.
Programme Structure
Courses content:
- Sample spaces, events, outcomes, axioms of probability
- Counting, permutations, combinations, binomial coefficients
- Probability, conditional probability, Bayes rule, independence
- Random variables, discrete and continuous distributions
- Expectation, moments of a distribution
- Random sampling, parameter estimation, distribution of the sample mean, central limit theorem
- Confidence intervals for the mean with known variance, sample variance, biased and unbiased estimators
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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More details
Rolling Admission Application Completion Deadline: May 18
Language
English
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IELTS 7
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Credits
4 alternative credits
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Stanford, United States
Disciplines
Statistics General Engineering & Technology Actuarial Science View 34 other Short Courses in General Engineering & Technology in United StatesWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
TOEFL® IBT 100
IELTS 7
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Other requirements
General requirements
International students who require a Stanford-sponsored I-20 visa must maintain a minimum of 8 units throughout the Summer Quarter.
- Original I-20 (Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant F-1 Student Status)
- I-901 SEVIS Fee Receipt
- Stanford University's Stanford Summer Session Admission Letter (available online within the Stanford Summer Session applicant status page)
- Original Proof of Funding Document
- F-1 Visa (this is the visa stamp attached to your passport by the U.S. Embassy)
- Passport
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents4700 USD / full≈ 4700 USD / full
Additional Details
Tuition fee does not include:
- Application fee
- Housing and meals
- Healthcare coverage plan
- Visa I-20 Sponsorship fee
Funding
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