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Lecturewise Syllabus NPTEL Youtube

This document summarizes the topics covered in a course on probability and statistics. The course includes lectures on classical, relative frequency, and axiomatic definitions of probability; random variables; common probability distributions; functions of random variables; joint, marginal, and conditional distributions; transformations of random variables; sampling distributions and the central limit theorem; estimation methods like maximum likelihood and confidence intervals; and hypothesis testing concepts like null and alternative hypotheses, types of errors, and tests for various distributions. The document lists the lecture numbers corresponding to each major topic area.

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Lecturewise Syllabus NPTEL Youtube

This document summarizes the topics covered in a course on probability and statistics. The course includes lectures on classical, relative frequency, and axiomatic definitions of probability; random variables; common probability distributions; functions of random variables; joint, marginal, and conditional distributions; transformations of random variables; sampling distributions and the central limit theorem; estimation methods like maximum likelihood and confidence intervals; and hypothesis testing concepts like null and alternative hypotheses, types of errors, and tests for various distributions. The document lists the lecture numbers corresponding to each major topic area.

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Youtube Link: for the course MA 20104 Probability and Statistics (lectures by

Professor Somesh Kumar) : nptelhrd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYLpmKRfQ8&list=PL6C92B335BD4238AB

1. Probability: Classical, relative frequency and axiomatic definitions of probability,


addition rule and conditional probability, multiplication rule, total probability, Bayes’
Theorem and independence, problems. Lecture No. 3-6

2. Random Variables: Discrete, continuous and mixed random variables, probability


mass, probability density and cumulative distribution functions, mathematical
expectation, moments, moment generating function, median and quantiles,
Chebyshev’s inequality, problems. Lecture No. 7 -9

3. Special Distributions: Discrete uniform, binomial, geometric, negative binomial,


hypergeometric, Poisson, continuous uniform, exponential, gamma, Weibull, Pareto,
beta, normal, Cauchy distributions, reliability of series and parallel systems,
problems. Lecture No. 10-16

4. Function of a Random Variable: Distribution of function of a random variable,


problems. Lecture No. 17

5. Joint Distributions: Joint, marginal and conditional distributions, product moments,


correlation, independence of random variables, bivariate normal distribution,
problems. Lecture No. 18-20

6. Transformations: functions of random vectors, distributions of sums of random


variables, problems. Lecture No. 21-22

7. Sampling Distributions: The Central Limit Theorem, distributions of the sample


mean and the sample variance for a normal population, Chi-Square, t and F
distributions, problems. Lecture No. 23 -24

8. Estimation: Unbiasedness, consistency, the method of moments and the method of


maximum likelihood estimation, confidence intervals for parameters in one sample
and two sample problems of normal populations, confidence intervals for proportions,
problems. Lecture No. 27-32

9. Testing of Hypotheses: Null and alternative hypotheses, the critical and acceptance
regions, two types of error, power of the test, the most powerful test and Neyman-
Pearson Fundamental Lemma, tests for one sample and two sample problems for
normal populations, tests for proportions, Chi-square goodness of fit test and its
applications, problems. Lecture No. 33-40

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