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Sunday, May 26, 2013
05:07 AM (GMT +5) |
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| Statistics |
Total Marks - 100
- Basic Probability Axiomatic definition of probability, random variable, distribution function, probability density function, mathematical expectation; conditional probability, jointly distributed random variables, marginal and conditional distributions, conditional expectation, stochastic independence.
- Some Special Distributions : Binomial, poisson. negative binomial, hypergeometric, normal distributions with their derivation of their mean and variance; Definition and Application of chisquare, "T" and 'F' distributions.
- Statistical Inference: Maximum likelihood estimation of the mean and the variance of a normal population; confidence interval for mean, difference of means and for variance: testing hypothesis for the equality of two means (paired and unpaired observations); testing of equality of sever al means (ANOVA) and testing of variance and equality of two variance.
- Correlation and regression: Simple linear regression model point and interval estimation of parameters, Simple Partial, Multiple Correlation and testing of these correlations.
- Sampling, Simple random, stratified, systematic and cluster sampling, estimates of mean and total and their precision.
- Applications of Statistics in social, economic and political problems public health, crimes, Law, social innovations economic development, socio-political inequality.
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Suggested Readings |
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Title |
Author |
| 1 |
Introduction to the Theory of Statistics |
Mood, Graybill and Boes |
| 2 |
Mathematical Statistics |
Freund |
| 3 |
Mathematical Statistics |
Hood and Craig |
| 4 |
Sampling Techniques (3e) |
Cochran and Cox |
| 5 |
Statistics: An Introductory Analysis |
Yamane |
| 6 |
Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown |
Tanur; Hudith (ed) |
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