Syllabus for Probability and Statistics

(For students of B. Tech (CSE, IT, ECE & PE) Second Year)

Unit I: Descriptive Statistics and Probability

Review of mean, median and mode, variance. Moments and properties, Skewness and Kurtosis.
Probability: concepts, definition, examples, conditional probability and Bayes' theorem.

Unit II: Random Variables and Probability Distributions

Discrete & continuous random variables and their properties, mass function, density function, distribution
functions. Expectation, moment generating function, Binomial, Poisson, Exponential & Normal
distributions and their applications.

Unit III: Correlation and Regression

Bivariate distributions and their properties, Joint and marginal density functions, Conditional densities.
Covariance, Correlation, Regression, Regression lines. Curve fitting by the method of least square- fitting
of straight lines.

Unit IV: Hypothesis Testing

Population and samples, Sampling distribution of statistic, standard error. Null and Alternative
Hypothesis, critical region, critical values and level of significance. One tail and two-tail tests, confidence
interval, Errors in testing of hypothesis; Type I and Type II errors, power of the test.

Unit V: Inferential test procedures

Test of significance, large sample test for single proportion, difference of proportion, single mean,
difference of means and difference of standard deviation. Small sample test: Student’s t-test and it’s
applications, F-test and it’s applications. Chi-square test for goodness of fit and independence of
attributes.

LEARNING OUTCOME: Students will be able to:

 Compute probability, various discrete and continuous probability distributions of random variables and their properties.
 Use the tools of statistics including measures of central tendency, correlation and regression.
 Use statistical methods for studying data samples.
 Use large sample and small sample tests.

Text Books:

1. S. Palaniammal, Probability and Random Processes, PHI learning private ltd., 2015.
2. S.C. Gupta, Fundamentals of Statistics, 7th Ed., Himalaya Publishing House, 2018.

Reference Books:

1. S.C. Gupta, V.K. Kapoor, Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, Sultan Chand & Sons, 2016.
2. Richards A Jonson, Irvin Miller and Johnson Freund, Probability and Statistics for Engineering, 9th Edition, PHI, 2011.
3. S. Ross, A First Course in Probability, 8th Ed., Pearson Education India, 2010.
4. M.R. Spiegel, J.J. Schiller and R.A. Srinivasan, Probability and Statistics, Schaum’s Outlines, 2013.