Statistical and Mathematical Methods for Data Science Spring 2025

Assignment # One per Individual Student

😊 DON’T PANIC 😉

Marks are based on Number of Problems Submitted

Part One: Due Handwritten in Class on Monday April 07, 2025
Part Two: Due on Portal Only 11:59 PM Sunday April 06, 2025
The Use of ChatGPT is Allowed for Understanding
BUT Copy (Even One line) from
ChatGPT or Anyone or Anywhere Else is Zero Marks

Part One: Write in Your Own Words in Pure English without any
Diagrams or Equations or Mathematics
1. Read Chapter 1, 4 and 5 of LA Textbook and write your understanding in your own words
[15 marks per chapter]
2. Provide short answer (1 to 5 sentences) for the following Questions in your own words:
[5 marks per question]

System of Linear Equations

i. What is a Linear System?
ii. What is a Linear Equation
iii. What is a System of Linear Equations?
iv. What Does It Mean to Have a Solution of System of Linear Equations?
v. How to Solve a System of Linear Equations?
vi. What Echelon and Reduced Echelon Form of Augment matrix Tell us about the solution of System
of Linear Equations?
vii. What are Vectors?
viii. What is the Relation of Vectors to System of Linear Equations?
ix. What is a Linear Transformation?
x. What is the Meaning of System of Linear Equations in terms of Linear Transformation?

Vector Space and Subspace

i. What is a Vector Space?
ii. How does a Vector Space is made?
iii. How to Prove that a Set of Vectors is a Vector Space?
iv. What is the Vector Space of Functions?
v. What is the Interpretation of Ax = b in terms of Vector Space?
vi. What is a Vector Subspace?
vii.
viii. How to Prove that a Set of Vectors is a Subspace of a Vector Space?
Linear Transformation
i. What is a Linear Transformation?
ii. How to Prove that a Given Transformation is Linear?
iii. What are the Domain and Co-Domain of a Transformation?
iv. How to apply given transformation on a vector and shape ?
v. How to Find transformation on Given Source and Target vectors?
vi. What is the Interpretation of a Linear Transformation in terms of Vector Spaces?

Null, Column and Row Space of a Matrix

i. What is the Span of Vectors?
ii. What is a Column Space of a Matrix?
iii. What is a Row Space of a Matrix ?
iv. What is the Null Space of a Matrix?
v. Is Column Space a Subspace? And of Which Vector Space?
vi. Is Row Space a Subspace? And of Which Vector Space?
vii. Is Null Space a Subspace? And of Which Vector Space?
viii. What is a Spanning Set of the Null Space of a Matrix?
ix. What are Linearly Dependent or Independent Vectors?
x. Are Column vectors of Matrix A linearly independent or not?
xi. Is Column Space of matrix A Linearly Independent or not?
xii. How to Test if a Given vector is in the Null Space of a matrix?
xiii. How to Test if a Given vector is in the Column Space of a matrix?

Linear Independence of Set of Vectors and Basis

i. What is the Condition of Linear Dependence and Independence of Vectors?
ii. How to Determine if a Set of Vectors are Dependent or Independent?
iii. Are Column vectors of Matrix linearly independent or not?
iv. Are vectors of Null Space of Matrix Linearly Independent or not?
v. How to Find A Set of Independent Vectors in a Vector Space?
vi. How to Find A Set of Independent Vectors in a Null, Column and Row Space of a Matrix?
vii. What are Basis Vectors?
viii. What are Standard Basis Vectors?
ix. What is the Condition for a Set of Vectors to be a Basis of a Vector Space?
x. How to Check if the Given Set of Vectors Are the Basis of a Given Vector Space?
xi. How to Determine Basis Vectors of a Vector Space?

Coordinate System
i. What is a Coordinate System?
ii. What is the Relation Between Vector Space, Basis and Coordinate Systems?
iii. What is the Unique Representation Theorem?
iv. What is the Meaning of a Coordinate Vector in Terms of Basis?
v. How to Find a Coordinate Vector from a Fixed Basis?
vi. What is coordinate mapping?
vii. What is Change of Coordinates?
viii. What is coordinate mapping?
ix. What is the Dimension of a Vector Space?
x. How to Find Dimension of a Vector Space and Subspace?
xi. What is the Rank of a Matrix?
xii. How to Determine Rank of a Matrix?
xiii. What is Change of Basis?
 xiv. How to Do Change of Basis from one Basis to Another?

Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors and Eigenspace of a Matrix

i. What are Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors and Eigenspace of a Matrix?
ii. How to find Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors and Eigenspace of a Matrix?
iii. How to Find basis of eigenspace of a Matrix?

3. Numerical Problems [5 marks per Problem]

i. Solve the following problems from LA Textbook
Chapter 1:
a. Page 22: Exercises 10 – 14
b. Page 23; Exercise 34
c. Page 48: 10 – 14
d. Page 61: 10 – 14
e. Page 68: 3 – 7; 13 – 17; 26 - 30
Chapter 4:
a. Page 198: 10 – 14
b. Page 208: 10 – 14 and 30 - 34
c. Page 215: 3 – 7
d. Page 216: 15-17
e. Page 217: 31,32, 36 - 38

Part Two: Applications of Linear Algebra (code solution in the

programming language of your choice, MATLAB or even Excel)
[20 marks per Problem]

• This part must be submitted on the portal only and required some research
and coding.

• If you are unable to code then you will need to describe detailed algorithms
in your own words and manually show (Simulate) the application on a set of
data.

• For data you can create your ow data of get from the internet or ask
ChatGPT to generate.

Portal Submission Instructions

• Each Problem must be in a separate Zip file
• Each Zip File must contain:
1. A Word .docx file containing problem statement, description of how the problem is solved and the
algorithm used in the code. What sources are used? Reference of all Sources including web sites
etc.
2. All Code files used in the Solution
3. All Data files containing all the data used in the code
4. One or more Screenshots of the Run Examples of the Code
5. A user guide on how to setup code environment, run the code and interpret the results
• Name each Zip file for each problem must be as per the following convention:
1. S25_SMM_Registration_P#.zip (25 % marks deduction if this is not followed)
2. For example .zip file for Problem 1 of registration L1S24MSDS001 MUST have this name:
S25_SMM_L1S24BSCS001_P1.zip

Problem One: Digital Image Processing

1. Read an Image from a text file given in terms of grey-scale value per pixel
2. Use a Suitable Linear Transformation to do the Following:
a. Rotate Image by a given angle
b. Scale Image by a given values
c. Shear Image in one direction by a given amount
d. Shear Image in the second direction by a given amount
e. Stretch Image horizontally by a given amount
f. Stretch Image vertically by a given amount
g. Stretch Image diagonally by a given amount

Problem Two: Data Analytics

1. Read the course results from a CSV (or Excel) file containing the following data fields
Sr.No, Registration, Name, (1 - 4) Quiz Marks, (1 – 4) Assignment Marks, Midterm Exam Marks, Project
Marks, Final Exam Marks

The course used the following Grade Register

Assessment Percentage Points
Quiz 15
Assignment 15
Project 10
Midterm exam 20
Final Exam 40

2. Use Linear Algebra to categorize (or cluster) students according to their similarity in the performance in
the course. Your method must use all the data provided in the file.

Problem Three: Match Making

A Job Portal contains data of job requirements from companies and CVs from candidates. You will need
to use Linear Algebra to provide a Match between Jobs and Candidates and generate the most suitable
jobs for each candidate and most suitable candidates for each job.

For this problem you will need to do the following:

1. Decide the format of the file containing the job descriptions and CVs
2. Create at least 10 job descriptions and CVs of 50 Students (may generate this data)
3. Devise and Code the matching algorithm
4. Run code and test against some manual results
5. Provide an analysis of the performance e.g. Accuracy etc. of your method