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AD-703 (C) RGPV B.Tech

Advanced Statistical Analytics (ASA)

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for AD-703 (C)

Syllabus units

Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.

Unit 1 Introduction 9 topics
  • Population and Sample
  • Random Sampling from finite population ($\text{SRSWR}$ and $\text{SRSWOR}$)
  • Parameter and Statistic
  • Sampling distribution of a statistic in the context of a finite population
  • Sampling distribution of sample mean and sample proportion while sampling from a finite population
  • Random sampling from an infinite population
  • Sampling distribution of sample mean and sample variance when the sample is drawn from a Normal distribution
  • Problems on sampling distributions of statistics from finite and infinite populations
  • Statement of Lyapunov–Lévy Central Limit Theorem ($\text{CLT}$) and its applications
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Correlation, Regression Analysis and ANOVA 16 topics
  • Correlation
  • Scatter diagram
  • Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation
  • Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient
  • Methods of least squares
  • Simple Linear Regression (SLR) model
  • SLR assumptions and prediction
  • Multiple Linear Regression (MLR)
  • MLR assumptions and prediction
  • Polynomial Regression
  • Logistic Regression
  • Poisson Regression
  • Non‑Linear Regression
  • Analysis of Variance (One‑way \& Two‑way)
  • Analysis of Covariance
  • Multivariate Analysis of Variance
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Testing of Hypothesis 9 topics
  • Null and alternative hypothesis
  • Testing procedure (critical region)
  • Type I and Type II errors
  • Level of significance \& power of a test
  • $p$‑value for symmetric null distribution
  • Tests for mean and proportion (single‑sample, two‑sample; exact \& large‑sample)
  • Tests for variance (single‑sample and two‑sample)
  • Tests for mean and correlation coefficient for paired samples (exact \& large‑sample)
  • One‑way analysis of variance
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Parametric Point Estimation 11 topics
  • Problem of point estimation
  • Criteria of a good estimator
  • Unbiasedness
  • Consistency
  • Efficiency
  • Sufficiency
  • Minimum variance and unbiasedness (small sample)
  • Method of moments
  • Method of maximum likelihood
  • Consistency \& efficiency (large sample)
  • Interval estimation: confidence intervals of mean and proportion in large samples
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Bayesian Statistics 7 topics
  • Introduction to Bayesian inference
  • Bayesian parameter estimation
  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
  • Bayesian hierarchical models
  • Survival analysis
  • Causal inference
  • High‑dimensional data analysis
Unit 5 notes
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