Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal 1 Year Curriculum Structure For B.Tech Courses in Engineering & Technology
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal 1 Year Curriculum Structure For B.Tech Courses in Engineering & Technology
Module Lectures
Description of Topic
No. Hours
Basic Probability: Probability spaces, conditional probability, independence;
Discrete random variables, Independent random variables, the Multinomial
1
distribution, Poisson approximation to the Binomial distribution, infinite sequences 11
of Bernoulli trials, sums of independent random variables; Expectation of Discrete
Random Variables, Moments, Variance of a sum, Correlation coefficient,
Chebyshev's Inequality.
Continuous Probability Distributions:
4
Continuous random variables and their properties, Distribution functions and
2
densities, Normal, Exponential and Gamma densities.
Bivariate Distributions:
5
Bivariate distributions and their properties, distribution of sums and quotients,
3
Conditional densities, Bayes' rule.
Basic Statistics:
8
Measures of Central tendency, Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis, Probability
4
distributions: Binomial, Poisson and Normal and evaluation of statistical
parameters for these three distributions, Correlation and regression – Rank
correlation.
Applied Statistics:
8
Curve fitting by the method of least squares- fitting of straight lines, second degree
5
parabolas and more general curves. Test of significance: Large sample test for
single proportion, difference of proportions, single mean, difference of means, and
difference of standard deviations.
6 Small samples:
4
Test for single mean, difference of means and correlation coefficients, test for ratio
of variances - Chi-square test for goodness of fit and independence of attributes.
Course Outcomes:
Understand the basic ideas of statistics with different characterisation of a univariate and bivariate
data set.
Apply statistical tools for analysing data samples and drawing inference on a given data set.
Learning Resources: