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Statistics Syllabus2021

The syllabus outlines the topics covered in the CSIR-UGC NET for Mathematical Sciences, focusing on statistics and probability. Key areas include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, estimation methods, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and multivariate techniques. Additionally, it addresses sampling methods, experimental designs, and basic operations research concepts such as linear programming and queuing models.

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Statistics Syllabus2021

The syllabus outlines the topics covered in the CSIR-UGC NET for Mathematical Sciences, focusing on statistics and probability. Key areas include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, estimation methods, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and multivariate techniques. Additionally, it addresses sampling methods, experimental designs, and basic operations research concepts such as linear programming and queuing models.

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STATISTICS SYLLABUS

AS PER CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior Research Fellowship and
Lecturer-ship for MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Descriptive statistics, exploratory data analysis

Sample space, discrete probability, independent events, Bayes theorem. Random


variables and distribution functions (univariate and multivariate); expectation and
moments. Independent random variables, marginal and conditional distributions.
Characteristic functions. Probability inequalities (Tchebyshef, Markov, Jensen). Modes
of convergence, weak and strong laws of large numbers, Central Limit theorems (i.i.d.
case).

Markov chains with finite and countable state space, classification of states, limiting
behaviour of n-step transition probabilities, stationary distribution, Poisson and birth-
and-death processes.

Standard discrete and continuous univariate distributions. sampling distributions,


standard errors and asymptotic distributions, distribution of order statistics and range.

Methods of estimation, properties of estimators, confidence intervals. Tests of


hypotheses: most powerful and uniformly most powerful tests, likelihood ratio tests.
Analysis of discrete data and chi-square test of goodness of fit. Large sample tests.

Simple nonparametric tests for one and two sample problems, rank correlation and test
for independence. Elementary Bayesian inference.

Gauss-Markov models, estimability of parameters, best linear unbiased estimators,


confidence intervals, tests for linear hypotheses. Analysis of variance and covariance.
Fixed, random and mixed effects models. Simple and multiple linear regression.
Elementary regression diagnostics. Logistic regression.

Multivariate normal distribution, Wishart distribution and their properties.


Distribution of quadratic forms. Inference for parameters, partial and multiple
correlation coefficients and related tests. Data reduction techniques: Principle
component analysis, Discriminant analysis, Cluster analysis, Canonical correlation.
Simple random sampling, stratified sampling and systematic sampling. Probability
proportional to size sampling. Ratio and regression methods.

Completely randomized designs, randomized block designs and Latin-square designs.


Connectedness and orthogonality of block designs, BIBD. 2K factorial experiments:
confounding and construction.

Hazard function and failure rates, censoring and life testing, series and parallel
systems.

Linear programming problem, simplex methods, duality. Elementary queuing and


inventory models. Steady-state solutions of Markovian queuing models: M/M/1,
M/M/1 with limited waiting space, M/M/C, M/M/C with limited waiting space,
M/G/1.

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