Probability and Statistics : UCS410

School of Mathematics, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala

Autumn 2022

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.~Aristotle.

Course Description

Probability and Statistics (UCS410) is a one semester, upper-level module that emphasizes the probability and statistics used to study different kind of data and real life problems, and to analyse their properties. Students also experiment with implementing algorithms in R/Matlab. Course credit are 4.0 (3 Lectures and 1 Lab per week). The students will become knowledgeable about various problems related to data analysis. The course will also develop an understanding of the use of probability and analysis of various samples. For details please see Course Policies.

Instructor: Dr. Paramjeet Singh.

Lectures Time and Place: Monday at 09:40 (T106), Tuesday at 3:30 (T105), Thursday at 08:00 (T106).

Lecture Notes : CH1 CH2 CH3 CH4 CH5 CH6 CH7 CH8 CH9

Assignments:

Solutions:

Examinations:

Mid-Term Exam:

End-Term Exam:

Quizzes/Homework/Minor Projects: This component with successful completion have weight ..%.

Announcements:

  • (December 27, 2021) Fourth Internal Exam


Assignments: Students are advised to study regularly and expected to solve the the assignments given at the end of the lecture notes.

An Advise to develop good study habits can be found here.

  1. You should check this page daily and begin working the assignments immediately after they are posted.

  2. You are expected to do all assigned problems. You may need to do additional problems for practice.

  3. You are expected to read the textbook as we cover the material.

Meetings: Students can meet me in my office in G 254. Please make appointments at singh.pparam@gmail.com and see my schedule on the URL of another course which I am teaching in the current semester.