Applied Statistics, September-November 2020

Instructor

Sivaram Ambikasaran,

 Evaluation Points Daily Quizzes $$20$$ EndSem $$80$$

Online Lectures

First class will be in September second week (tentatively). The lectures will be accompanied by a quiz on a daily basis to improve your understanding.

Daily Quiz

• Each lecture day (i.e., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday) there will be an online quiz via google forms.
• The quizzes will be open till the end of the semester though you are strongly encouraged to attempt the quiz according to the schedule.
• All these quizzes put together carry a weightage of $$20$$ points towards your total score.

Short Syllabus

• Review of Probability: Basic probability, Conditioning and Bayes rule, Independence, Counting, Discrete & Continuous Random Variables, Multiple Random variables, Law of Large Numbers (around 12 lectures)
• Statistics: Introduction, Parametric Inference, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Method of Moments, Parametric Hypothesis Testing, Testing goodness of fit, Regression, Bayesian Statistics, Principal Component Analysis, Generalized Linear Models (around 22 lectures)

Textbooks

• Dimitri Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis. Introduction to Probability
• Notes/Slides will be posted for the statistics part

FAQ

• Question from Student: Is it possible to increase the weightage of continuous evaluation from 20% to 40% to 60%. The reason being that we will have lots of end sem exams (exams from previous sem as well) to write when we return to campus. So 80% end sem is quite intimidating.

Answer: For now the grading is fixed. We will see how things evolve and adopt a different strategy (will be favorable to students) accordingly.

• Question from Student: Do we need to take notes of the video lectures?

Answer: Up to each individual on whether they want to take notes or not.

• Question from Student: If we have any doubts we can directly mail or text you in WhatsApp?

Answer: Yes, you can email me or WhatsApp me

• Question from Student: Kindly give details about Assignments.

Answer: There will be no assignments. Only daily quizzes which will be used for grading. And then of course the final end semester exam

• Question from Student: Is it bound to take quiz today?

Answer: Up to each individual. Ideally, taking a quiz daily will keep you on track. The quizzes will be open till the end of the semester but please do not let things pile up till the end.