Probability Theory: Elementary concepts on probability – axiomatic definition of probability – conditional probability – Bayes’ theorem – random variables – standard discrete and continuous distributions – moments of random variables – moment generating functions – multivariate random variables – joint distributions of random variables – conditional and marginal distributions – conditional expectation – distributions of functions of random variables – t and χ 2 distributions – Schwartz and Chebyshev inequalities – weak law of large numbers for finite variance case – central limit theorem for iid finite variance case.

Statistics: Elementary concepts on populations, samples, statistics – sampling distributions of sample mean and sample variance – point estimators and its important properties – point estimator for mean and variance and proportion – confidence interval for sample mean – tests of hypotheses – Chi-squared test of goodness of fit.

Numerical Methods: Solution of algebraic and transcendental equations – system of linear algebraic equations – interpolation – numerical integration – numerical solution of ordinary differential equations – system of nonlinear algebraic equations.

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