Foundation of Data Science

Syllabus

Week/Module ľopics
Week 1: DescriptiveStatistics • Introduction
and Data Visualization • Data Types and Scales
• Population and Sample
• Measures of CentralTendency
• Measures of Variation
• Measures of Shape
• Data Visualization
• Demo Using Excel andTableau

• Introduction
• Probability Theory-Terminology
• Axioms of Probability
• Bayes’ Theorem
• Random Variables
• PDF& CDF of Continuous
• Binomial Distribution
• Poisson Distribution
• Geometric Distribution
Week 2: Probability Theory • Uniform Distribution
• Exponential Distribution
• Normal Distribution
• Chi-Square Distribution
• Student’s t-Distribution
• F-Distribution
• Tutorials

• Introduction
• Population Parameter &Sample
Statistic
• Sampling
Week 3: Sampling andEstimation • Probabilistic Sampling
• Non-Probability Sampling
• Sampling Distribution
• Central Limit Theorem
• Sample Size Estimation forMean of the
Population
 • Estimation of PopulationParameters
• Method of Moments
• Estimation of Parameters Using Maximum
LikelihoodEstimation

• Introduction
• CI for Population Mean
• CI for PopulationProportion
• CI for Population Mean when Standard
Week 4: ConfidenceIntervals Deviation is unknown
• CI for Population Variance

Mid – Term Assessment

• Introduction
• Setting up a HypothesisTest
• One-Tailed and Two-TailedTest
• Type I Error, Type II Error,and Power of
the Hypothesis Test
• Hypothesis testing for Population Mean
with Known Variance: Z-Test
• Hypothesis testing for Population
Proportion: Z-Test
• Hypothesis test for Population Mean
underUnknown Population Variance: t-
test
• Paired Sample t-test
• Two-Sample Z and t-test
Week 5: Hypothesis Testing
• Two-Sample Z-Test forProportions
• Effect Size: Cohen’s D
• Hypothesis Test for Equality of
PopulationVariances
• Non-Parametric Tests: Chi-Square Tests
 • Tutorials

• Introduction
• Multiple t-Tests for Comparing Several
Means
Week 6: Analysis ofVariance • One-way ANOVA
• Two-way ANOVA
• Tutorials

• Introduction
• Pearson CorrelationCoefficient
• Spearman Rank Correlation
Week 7: CorrelationAnalysis • Point Bi-Serial Correlation
• The Phi-Coefficient

• Why do we need LinearAlgebra?

• Matrix Algebra andOperations
• Eigen Values and EigenVectors
• Linear Algebra in Dimensionality
Reduction
• Linear Algebra in NaturalLanguage
Week 8: Applied LinearAlgebra Processing
• Linear Algebra in MachineLearning

End – Term Assessment

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Grading Policy:
 Assessment ľype Weightage
Mid-Term & End-Term 25%

Final Exam 75%

Certificate Eligibility:

• 40% marks and above in Mid Term & End Term

• 40% marks and above in the final proctored exam

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