BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI

K K BIRLA GOA CAMPUS

SECOND SEMESTER 2021-2022 (Course Handout Part II)

In addition to part I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives
further specific details regarding the course.

Course No. : MATH F113

Course Title : Probability & Statistics
Instructor-in-charge: Shilpa Gondhali.
Instructors : Gunja Sachdev, Yasmeen Akhtar.
Tutorial Instructors : Ram Singh, Abhishek Yadav, Askar, Sayantan.
FD TAs: Sayan Chattopadhyay (f20190819 at goa.bits-pilani.ac.in), Tushar Shrimali (f20190266
at goa.bits-pilani.ac.in ).

(1) Course Description:

Probability theory deals with many real life problems, which either inherently involve the chance
phenomena or describe the behavior of the system explicitly with statistical properties. Inter-
pretation of the system behavior in many engineering aspects depends on concept of probability
and statistics that familiarize with the computational aspects. This course explains the basic
properties of random variables, probability distributions, statistical inferences, and other related
concepts.

(2) Scope and Objective of the Course:

The primary objective of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamental concepts
and techniques of probability theory and statistical analysis.

(3) Text Book:

T1] Devore, J. L.: Probability & Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 8th edition,
Cengage Learning, 2012.

(4) Reference Books:

R1] Milton, J. S. and Arnold J. C.: Introduction to Probability and Statistics: Principles
and Applications for Engineering and the Computing Sciences, 4th edition, Tata McGraw-Hill,
2007.

R2] Johnson, R. A., Miller: Freund’s Probability and Statistics for Engineers, 8th edition,
PHI, 2010.

R3] Meyer, P. L.: Introductory Probability and Statistical Applications, 2nd edition, Addison-
Wesley, 1970.

R4] Ross, S. M.: Introduction to Probability Models, 11th edition, Academic Press, 2014.

R5] Walpole, R. E., Myers, R. H., Myers, S. L., Ye, K. E.: Probability & Statistics for
Engineers and Scientists, 9th edition, Pearson Education, 2016.

(5) Course Plan:

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Module Lecture Session Sections Learning Outcome

1. Various L 1-4 Brief introduction to T1: 2.1, Formulating the founda-
Concepts in probability, sample spaces, 2.2, 2.4, tions for Probability vis a
Probability events, Axioms of probabil- 2.5 vis practical notions
Theory ity, conditional probability,
independence and the mul-
tiplication rule, Bayes’ the-
orem
2. Discrete L 5-8 Random variables, T1: 3.1, Understanding random
Distributions discrete probability den- 3.2, 3.3, variable, basic theory of
sities, cumulative distri- R1: 7.3 discrete distributions and
bution, expectation, vari- studying a few important
ance and standard devi- discrete distributions
ation, Moment generating
function of a discrete ran-
dom variable
L 9-11 Binomial distribu- T1: 3.4,
tion, hypergeometric distri- 3.5, 3.6
bution, geometric distribu-
tion, Poisson distribution
3. Continuous L 12-14 Continuous den- T1: 4.1, To understand theory of
Distributions sities, cumulative distribu- 4.2, 4.3 continuous distributions
tion and distribution pa- and study a few important
rameters, uniform distribu- continuous distributions
tion, Normal distribution,
standard normal distribu-
tion,

L 15-17 Gamma distribu- T1: 4.4,

tion, exponential and chi- R1: 7.3
squared distribution, mo-
ment generating function

L 18 Transformation of R1: 4.8

variables

L 19 Chebyshev’s inequal- R1: 4.5,

ity, normal approximation 4.6
to binomial distribution
4. Joint Dis- L 20-23 Joint densities and T1: 5.1, Simultaneous behavior of
tributions independence, marginal dis- 5.2, several random variables
tribution: discrete and con-
tinuous, expectation, condi-
tional densities
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5. Descriptive L 24-25 Random sampling, T1: 5.3, Concepts of Sampling and

Statistics and sample statistics, central 5.4, 5.5 their applications to esti-
Estimation limit theorem. mate popu. para.

L 26-28 Point estimation, T1: 6.1,

method of moments & max- 6.2
imum likelihood, functions
of random variables
6. Statistical L 29-30 Interval estimation T1: 7.1, Applications to estimation
Inference of variability, estimating the 7.2, 7.3, of intervals and testing of
mean and Student-t distri- 7.4, hypotheses on popu. para.
bution

L 31-32 Hypothesis test- T1: 8.1-8.2

ing, hypothesis tests on the
mean
7. Simple L 33-34 Model and param- T1: 12.1, To study nature of depen-
Linear Regres- eter estimation, Correlation 12.3 dence of random variables
sion and Cor- using a sample
relation
(6) Evaluation Scheme :
Component Duration (minutes) Date & Time & Venue Marks Remarks
Quiz 1 30 or 40 10 June (tentative) 45 Open Book
Midterm Refer to Handout I 90 Closed Book
Quiz 2 30 or 40 18 July (tentative) 45 Open Book
Compre Exam. Refer to Handout I 120 Closed Book
(7) Chamber consultation hour: To be announced in the respective lecture by the respective
instructor.

(8) Notice: Notices concerning this course, will be put up on Quanta.

(9) Make-up Policy: Make-up will be given only for genuine cases and prior permission
has to be obtained from the Instruction Division and I/C.

Instructor-in-charge
MATH F113