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Iit Jam 2017 Syllabus For Mathematical Statistics

The Mathematical Statistics (MS) test paper comprises questions on Mathematics (40% weightage) and Statistics (60% weightage). The Mathematics section includes topics like sequences and series, differential calculus, integral calculus, and matrices. The Statistics section covers probability, random variables, standard distributions, joint distributions, sampling distributions, limit theorems, estimation, and testing of hypotheses.

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Iit Jam 2017 Syllabus For Mathematical Statistics

The Mathematical Statistics (MS) test paper comprises questions on Mathematics (40% weightage) and Statistics (60% weightage). The Mathematics section includes topics like sequences and series, differential calculus, integral calculus, and matrices. The Statistics section covers probability, random variables, standard distributions, joint distributions, sampling distributions, limit theorems, estimation, and testing of hypotheses.

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JAM - 2017

Syllabus - Mathematical Statistics (MS)

The Mathematical Statistics (MS) test paper comprises of Mathematics (40% weightage) and Statistics
(60% weightage).

MATHEMATICS
Sequences and Series: Convergence of sequences of real numbers, Comparison, root and ratio
tests for convergence of series of real numbers.

Differential Calculus: Limits, continuity and differentiability of functions of one and two variables.
Rolle's theorem, mean value theorems, Taylor's theorem, indeterminate forms, maxima and minima
of functions of one and two variables.

Integral Calculus: Fundamental theorems of integral calculus. Double and triple integrals, applications
of definite integrals, arc lengths, areas and volumes.

Matrices: Rank, inverse of a matrix. Systems of linear equations. Linear transformations, eigenvalues
and eigenvectors. Cayley-Hamilton theorem, symmetric, skew-symmetric and orthogonal matrices.

STATISTICS
Probability: Axiomatic definition of probability and properties, conditional probability, multiplication rule.
Theorem of total probability. Bayes' theorem and independence of events.

Random Variables: Probability mass function, probability density function and cumulative distribution
functions, distribution of a function of a random variable. Mathematical expectation, moments and
moment generating function. Chebyshev's inequality.

Standard Distributions: Binomial, negative binomial, geometric, Poisson, hypergeometric, uniform,


exponential, gamma, beta and normal distributions. Poisson and normal approximations of a binomial
distribution.

Joint Distributions: Joint, marginal and conditional distributions. Distribution of functions of random
variables. Joint moment generating function. Product moments, correlation, simple linear regression.
Independence of random variables.

Sampling distributions: Chi-square, t and F distributions, and their properties.

Limit Theorems: Weak law of large numbers. Central limit theorem (i.i.d.with finite variance case only).
Estimation: Unbiasedness, consistency and efficiency of estimators, method of moments and method
of maximum likelihood. Sufficiency, factorization theorem. Completeness, Rao-Blackwell and Lehmann-
Scheffe theorems, uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimators. Rao-Cramer inequality. Confidence
intervals for the parameters of univariate normal, two independent normal, and one parameter exponential
distributions.

Testing of Hypotheses: Basic concepts, applications of Neyman-Pearson Lemma for testing simple
and composite hypotheses. Likelihood ratio tests for parameters of univariate normal distribution.

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