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Course Detail

Course Name Computational Statistics and Inference Theory
Course Code 24AI634
Program M. Tech. in Artificial Intelligence
Semester Soft Core
Credits 4
Campus Amritapuri ,Coimbatore

Syllabus

Probability concepts, Probability simulations, Sampling concepts – random sampling, sampling distribution-, Parameter estimation methods – Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Method of Moments- Random number generation – General techniques for generating Random Variables, Monte Carlo Algorithms-Buffon’s needle experiment,

Monte carlo integration, Monte Carlo Methods for Inferential Statistics – Monte Carlo Hypothesis Testing, Bootstrap Methods – Exploratory data analysis – Traditional statistics methods and computational statistics methods , Frequentist statistics and Bayesian statistics Linear models and regression analysis – Maximum likelihood estimation, Linear Regression, Polynomial Regression, Stepwise Regression, Ridge Regression, Lasso, ElasticNet – Statistical Pattern Recognition- Bayes Decision Theory Estimating Class-Conditional Probabilities, Bayes Decision Rule Classification and Regression Trees, Clustering

Classification trees, Algorithm for Normal Attributes, Information Theory and Information. Entropy, Highly-Branching Attributes, ID3 to c4.5, CHAID, CART, Regression Trees, Model Trees, Pruning. Preprocessing and Post processing in data mining – Steps in Preprocessing, Discretization, Manual Approach, Binning, Entropy- based Discretization, Gaussian Approximation, K-tile method, Chi Merge, Feature extraction, selection and construction, Feature extraction, Algorithms, Feature selection, Feature construction, Missing Data, Post processing.

Objectives and Outcomes

Preamble

This course mainly focuses on the methods of computational statistics and how these methods can be applied in real world data sets. It provides understanding in the basic ideas of statistics, sampling distributions, exploratory data analysis, approaches for simulating distributions, estimation of probability density functions, and algorithms for data analysis.

 

Course Objectives

  • Introduce students to the importance of computation in data analysis.
  • To familiarize students with computational methods and simulation techniques used in statistics.
  • To enable the student to explore the features of high dimensional data sets.
  • To choose suitable computational methods to identify statistical pattern in real world data.

 

Course Outcomes

 

COs

Description

CO1

Understand the need of computational methods in data analysis

CO2

Choose suitable computational methods to analyze real world high dimensional data

CO3

Sets

CO4

Identify statistical pattern in data using suitable algorithms

 

Prerequisites

  • Probability and Statistics
  • Linear Algebra

CO-PO Mapping

 

COs

Description

PO1

PO2

PO3

PO4

PO5

CO1

Understand the need of computational methods

in data analysis

3

3

2

CO2

Choose suitable computational methods to analyze real world high dimensional data sets

3

3

4

2

1

CO3

Identify statistical pattern in data using suitable

algorithms

3

3

3

4

3

CO4

Use existing methods to develop new statistical

tools

2

3

3

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern – 70:30

 

  • Midterm Exam – 30%
  • Continuous Evaluation – 40%
  • End Semester Exam – 30%

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