National Institute of Technology Calicut

Department of Mathematics
Monsoon Semester 2021-22

MA2001D: Mathematics III

Course Plan

Lect
Term ure Topic

1 Sample space, events, probability (axioms), conditional probability, independence

2 Random variables, distribution function, discrete random variable, p.d.f., expectation
3 Expectation of a function of random variable, variance, geometric distribution
4 Binomial distribution, Hypergeometric distribution
5 Poisson distribution, Poisson approximation of Binomial distribution.
6 Quiz/ Revision
Continuous random variable, probability density function, mean and variance of a continuous
7 random variable
8 Uniform, Gama and Exponential distributions
9 Beta distribution, Weibull distribution
10 Normal distribution, mean and variance of normal distribution
11 Calculating normal probability
12 Markov and Chebyshev inequalities
Moments and moment generating function (MGF), MGF of standard distributions,
13 approximation of Binomial distribution
Joint distribution, marginal distribution, joint probability mass function, joint density function,
14 marginal density function, independent variables

15 Quiz/ Revision
Interim Test 1 (25 marks)
Transformation of random variables; joint probability distribution of functions of random
16 variables
17 Sum of random variables
18 Covariance, correlation coefficient,
19 Bivariate normal distribution, conditional distribution, conditional expectation
20 Quiz/ Revision
21 Random samples, sample mean, Law of large numbers
Central limit theorem, sampling distribution of mean (variance known), interval estimation of
22 mean.
Unbiased estimator, sample variance, Chi squared distribution, Distribution of sample mean
23 and variance), interval estimation of variance

24 Student's t distribution, interval estimation of mean when population variance is unknown

Maximum likelihood estimator, Maximum likelihood estimator of Binomial, Poisson and

25 normal parameters, method of moments
26 Quiz/ Revision
Interim Test 2 (25 marks)
27 Testing of hypothesis, Types of errors and power of the test
28 Testing of hypothesis regarding population mean (known variance)
29 Probability of type II error, one-sided tests
Testing of hypothesis regarding normal population mean (unknown variance), comparison of
30 means
31 Test regarding variance of a normal population, F distribution
32 F test of the equality of two variances
33 Estimation of proportion, Test for equality of proportions
34 Chi square test for goodness of fit
35 Analysis of contingency tables, test of association
36 Simple linear regression; method of least squares

Regression analysis: Curve fitting, the method of least squares, regression line, sampling
37 distribution of regression coefficients, curvilinear regression, polynomial regression
Sample correlation coefficient of paired data, Correlation and Regression, Regression to the
38 mean, Fisher Z transform
39 Analysis of variance -general principles
40 Analysis of Variance-One Way Analysis
41 Analysis of Variance; Two factor ANOVA.
42 Quiz/ Revision
End Semester Examination (30 marks)