Statistical Inference online course
NPTEL is offering online course for undergraduate/ postgraduate students in Statistical Inference.
About the course:
Enrollment Ends: February 03, 2020
Exam Date: March 29, 2020
For more details, please visit: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_ma19/preview
- This course aims at giving the foundation knowledge of Probability and Statistical Inference.
- In particular, it gives details of theory of Estimation and testing of hypothesis.
- Both theoretical aspects will be discussed and practical problems will be dealt with in great detail.
- This course will help students and practitioners of statistics at both UG and PG level.
- This course will also serve as a foundation course for students working on Machine Learning.
- Week 1: Revision of Probability, Different Discrete and Continuous Distributions
- Week 2: Functions of Random Variables and their distributions, T, Chi-sq, F distributions and their Moments
- Week 3: Introduction of statistics and the distinction between Data and its properties, and probabilistic models
- Week 4: Estimator and methods of estimation, Properties of an estimator: Consistency, Unbiasedness, Efficiency and Sufficiency
- Week 5: Neyman Factorization, Cramer-Rao Bound
- Week 6: Confidence Intervals, Concepts of hypothesis testing, Characteristics of Good Hypothesis, null and Alternative Hypotheses, Types of Errors
- Week 7: Inference on Population mean, Comparing two population means, Inference on Variance, Comparing two population variance
- Week 8: Neyman Pearson Lemma
Enrollment Ends: February 03, 2020
Exam Date: March 29, 2020
For more details, please visit: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_ma19/preview
