Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Licenţă
Domeniul: Calculatoare şi tehnologia informaţiei
Programul de studii: Ingineria informatiei - in limba engleza
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MMP0007	Experimental Data Processing	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L	Category	Status	
8	3+1+2		compulsory	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
TRÎMBITAS Radu Tiberiu	Ph.D.	Assoc.Prof.	Numerical and Statistical Calculus	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
To introduce students to problems and methods of Experimental Data Processing	

IV. Course contents
1. Errors. Measuring and classification.
2. Interpolation of data. Polynomial interpolation(Lagrange, Hermite). Efficient computing of interpolation polynomials. Divided differences. Spline interpolation. B-spline, cubic spline.
3. Least squares approximation. Normal equations and orthogonal Systems. Orthogonal polynomials.
4. Linear regression. Linear models and prediction. Inferences on model and coefficients. Curve fitting.
5. Generalized linear models.  
6. Multivariate statistics: Principal component analysis, clusters, factor analysis.
7. Data visualization. 2D and 3D Graphics. Volume visualization techniques.	

V. Bibliography
P. Blaga &#8211; Statistica prin &#8230; MATLAB, Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca 2003
D.Ciurchea, V.Chiş - Prelucrarea datelor experimentale, Litografia UBB, Cluj-Napoca, 1995.
W.H. Press, B.P. Flannery, S.A. Teulkolsky, W.T. Vetterling - Numerical Recipes, third edition, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 2007. 
R. Trîmbiţaş &#8211; Metode statistice, Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca, 2000	

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment
Exam: written paper and practical test.	

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Assoc.Prof. TRÎMBITAS Radu Tiberiu, Ph.D.