Applied Statistics, September-November 2020

Statistics

Credits 9 credits

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Instructor

Sivaram Ambikasaran,

Exams and Grading

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.

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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.