SEMESTER – I

MBD 411 STATISTICAL METHODS

Unit 1

Data Collection & Visualization: Concepts of measurement, scales of measurement, design

of data collection formats with illustration, data quality and issues with date collection

systems with examples from business, cleaning and treatment of missing data, principles

of data visualization, and different method of presenting data in business analytics.

Unit 2

Basic Statistics: Frequency table, histogram, measures of location, measures of spread,

skewness, kurtosis, percentiles, box plot, correlation and simple linear regression, partial

correlation, probability distribution as a statistics model, fitting probability distributions,

empirical distributions, checking goodness of fit through plots and tests.

Unit 3

Contingency Tables: Two way contingency tables, measures of association, testing for

dependence.

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Statistics: David Freedman, pobert pisani & Roger Purves, W. W. Norten & Co. 4th

Edition 2007.

2. The visual display of Quantitative information: Edward Tufte, Graphics Press, 2001

3. Best Practices in Data Cleaning: Jason W. Osborne, Sage Publications 2012.

MBD 412 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

Prerequisite: UG Level Calculus

Unit 1

Discrete Distributions: Binomial, Poisson, multinomial, hypergeometric, negative

binomial, uniform. The (a,b,0) class of distributions. Moments, quantiles, cdf, survival

function and other properties.

Unit 2

Continuous Distributions: Uniform, Normal, Exponential, gamma, Weibull, Pareto,

lognormal, Laplace, Cauchy, Logistic distributions; properties and applications. Functions

of random variables and their distributions using Jacobian of transformation and other

tools.

Unit 3

Bivariate normal and bivariate exponential distributions.

Unit 4

Concept of a sampling distribution. Sampling distributions of t, χ2 and F (central and non-

central), their properties and applications. Multivariate normal distribution. Distribution of

linear function of normal random variables. Characteristic function of the multivariate

normal distribution. Distribution of quadratic forms. Cochran’s theorem. Independence of

quadratic forms.

Unit 5

Compound, truncated and mixture distributions. Convolutions of two distributions. Order

statistics: their distributions and properties. Joint, marginal and conditional distribution of

order statistics. The distribution of range and median. Extreme values and their asymptotic

distribution (statement only) with applications.

MAIN REFERENCE: 1. Rohatgi V.K & A.K. MD. Ehsanes Saleh: An Introduction to Probability Theory and

Mathematical Statistics, 2nd. John Wiley and Sons, 2001.

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES: 1. Rao, C.R. (2002). Linear Statistical Inference and its Applications, (2nd Ed.Wiley).

2. Reiss R D, Thomas M. Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values with application to

Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and other Fields (Second Edition) BirkhäuserVerlag

3. Chandra T.K., Chatterjee D., A first course in Probability (2001) Narosa Publication.

MBD 413 LINEAR ALGEBRA & MATRIX THEORY

Unit 1

Fields, System of Linear Equations

Unit 2

Matrices, Elementary Row Operations, Row Reduced Matrices, Invertible Matrices,

Vector spaces, Subspaces, Linear Combinations, Linear span, Linear dependence and

Linear independence of vectors, Basis and Dimension, Ordered Basis, Finite dimensional

vector spaces, Sum and Direct sum of subspaces,

Unit 3

Linear transformations and their representation as matrices, Kernel and Image of a linear

transformation, Rank and Nullity Theorem, Change of Basis,

Unit 4

Eigen values and Eigen vectors of a linear transformation (matrices), Characteristic

polynomial and minimal polynomial, Diagonalization of linear operators, invariant

subspaces, Jordon form

Unit 5

Inner product spaces, Cauchy-Schwarz-inequality, Orthogonal vectors, Orthonormal sets

and bases, Positive Definite and Positive Semi-definite Matrices, Linear functional on an

Inner Product Space and Adjoint of a Linear operator, Self-adjoint operators, Normal

Operators, Spectral theorem.

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

1. Linear Algebra, Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Prentice Hall.

2. Linear Algebra, Friedberg, Pearson Education.

3. Linear Algebra and Applications, Gilbert Strang, Academic Press.

4. Linear Algebra Done Right, Axler, Sheldon, Springer International Publishing.

5. Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces, P.R. Halmos, Springer-Verlag, New York.

6. Linear Algebra: A Geometric Approach, S. Kumaresan

MBD414 COMPUTING FOR DATA SCIENCES

Unit 1

Computer Package: Usage of R & Python with illustration.

Unit 2

Concepts of Computation: Algorithms, Convergence, Complexity with illustrations, some

sorting & searching algorithms, some numerical methods e.g. Newton Raphson, Steepest

ascent.

Unit 3

Computing Methodologies: Monte-Carlo simulations of random numbers and various

statistical methods, memory handling strategies for big data.

Computer Package (20 hrs. – Theory 8 hrs. + Lab 12 hrs.)

L0 -- Installation of RStudio and understanding the basic framework

L1 – Basic computational structures – Iterations and Recursions

L2 -- Sequences and Arrays in R – Search and Sort Algorithms

L2 -- Vectors and Matrices in R – Solving systems of linear equations

L3 -- Functions in R – Plotting (2D, Contour, 3D), Differentiation, Root finding

L4 – Linear Models in R – Gradient descent, Linear regression

L5 – Eigenvalue/vector computation and SVD in R (advanced)

L6 – Handling sparse matrices in R – Basic operations on sparse matrices

L7 – Probability Distributions and Random Sampling in R

L8 – Monte-Carlo Simulation in R – Implementation of case studies

Concept of Computations (10 hrs. – Theory 6 hrs. + Lab 4 hrs.)

L1 -- Algorithms – Search and Sort, Divide and Conquer, Greedy Algorithms – motivating

example from set cover for large data sets.

L2 – Computational Complexity – Growth of functions, Order notation

L3 – Computational Complexity -- Convergence, Error Estimation

L6 – Sparse Matrix – Store, Search and Basic operations

L7 – Binary Trees and Graphs as Computational Models

Numerical Methods (10 hrs. – Theory 4 hrs. + Lab 6 hrs.)

L2 -- Solving system of linear equations – Gauss-Jordan (concept of pivoting)

L3 -- Solving non-linear equations – Newton-Raphson, Steepest Descent

L4 – Optimizing cost functions – Gradient descent, Least square regression

L5 – Iterative methods in Linear Algebra – Power iteration, Eigenvalues, SVD

Computing Methodologies (10 hrs. – Theory 4 hrs. + Lab 6 hrs.)

L7 – Random sampling from Probability Distributions, Simulated Annealing

L8 – Monte-Carlo Simulation – Case studies

Memory Handling (10 hrs. – Theory 2 hrs. + Lab 8 hrs.)

L6 – Sparse Matrix – Store, Search and Basic operations

L9 – Pruning and Sampling algorithms, Streaming data, External sorting

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Software for Data Analysis – Programming with R: John M. Chambers, Springer

2. Elementary Numerical Analysis – An Algorithmic Approach: Samuel Conte and Carl

de Boor (McGraw-Hill Education)

3. Introduction to Algorithms: Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein, The MT Press (Third

Edition)

MBD 415 DATABASE MANAGEMENT

Unit 1

Basic Concepts: Need, purpose and goal of DBMS, Three tier architecture, ER Diagram,

data models- Relational, Network, Hierarchical. Database Design: Conceptual data base

design, concept of physical and logical databases, data abstraction and data independence,

data aggregation

Unit 2

Relational data base: Relations, Relational Algebra, Theory of Normalization, Functional

Dependency, Primitive and Composite data types,

Unit 3

Application Development using SQL: DDL and DML, Host Language interface, embedded

SQL programming, Stored procedures and triggers and views, Constraints assertions.

NoSQL Databases

Unit 4

Internal of RDBMS: Physical data organization in sequential, indexed random and hashed

files. Inverted and multilist structures, B trees, B+ trees, Query Optimization, Join

Algorithm, Statistics and Cost Base optimization. Parallel and distributed data base.

Unit 5

Transaction Processing, concurrency control, and recovery management. Transaction

model properties and state serializability. Lock base protocols, two phase locking.

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Database system concepts : Abraham Silberschartz, Henry F. Korth and S. Surarshan,

McGraw Hill, 2011. 2. Almasri and S.B. Navathe: Fundamentals of Database Systems, C.J. Date: Data Base

Design, Addison Wesley 3. Hansen and Hansen : DBM and Design, PHI

MBD 416 PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

Unit 1

Grammar and Vocabulary: Tenses, subject–verb agreement. Sentence Analysis: Simple,

Compound and Complex sentences. Phrases: Adjective, Adverb and Noun Phrase, Clauses:

Adjective, Adverb and Noun Phrase. Voice, Narration, Gerund, Participle.

Unit 2

Oral Communication: Listening Skill – Active listening, Barriers to active listening,

Speaking Skill- Stress patterns in English, Questioning skills, Barriers in Speaking,

Reading Skill- Skimming, Scanning, Intensive reading, linking devices in a text, Different

versions of a story/ incident

Unit 3

Written communication: Writing process, paragraph organization, writing styles, Types of

Writing - Technical vs. creative; Types of technical writing, Scientific Writing: Writing a

Scientific Report

Unit 4

Soft Skills: Body Language – Gesture, posture, facial expression. Group Discussion –

Giving up of PREP, REP Technique.

Unit 5

Presentation Skills: (i) How to make power point presentation (ii) Body language during

presentation (iii) Resume writing: Cover letter, career objective, Resume writing (tailor

made). Interview Skills: Stress Management, Answering skills.

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Advanced English Usage: Quirk & Greenbaum; Pearson Education.

2. Developing Communication Skills: Banerjee Meera & Mohan Krishna; Macmillan

Publications, 1990.

3. Business Communication: Chaturvedi, P.D.; Pearson Publications.

4. Business Communication; Mathew, M.J.; RBSA Publications, 2005.

5. Communication of Business; Taylor, Shirley; Pearson Publications.

6. Soft Skills: ICFAI Publication

7. Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus, Harper Collins Publishers and Times Books

8. Longman Language Activator, Longman Group Pvt. Ltd

9. Longman Dictionary of contemporary English, Longman

10. The new Penguin Dictionary – a set of dictionaries of abbreviations, spelling,

punctuation, plain English, grammar, idioms, thesaurus, 2000.

11. New Oxford Dictionary.

12. Wren & Martin: High School English Grammar and Composition

13. Raymond Murphy: English Grammar in Use (4th edition)

14. Martin Hewings: Advanced Grammar in Use

15. Betty Schrampfer: Understanding and Using English Grammar

MBD417 PYTHON AND JAVA Prerequisite: Programming Concepts

Unit 1

Introduction to Python: The basic elements of python, Branching Programs, Control

Structures, Strings and Input, Iteration, Functions, Scoping and Abstraction, Functions and

scoping, Specifications, Recursion, Global variables, Modules ,Files , System Functions

and Parameters,

Unit 2

Python Data Structures: Structured Types, Mutability and Higher-Order Functions,

Strings, Tuples, Lists and Dictionaries, Lists and Mutability, Functions as Objects, Testing,

Debugging, Exceptions and Assertions, Types of testing – Black-box and Glass-box,

Debugging, Handling Exceptions, Assertions. Simple Algorithms and Data structures,

Search Algorithms, Sorting Algorithms, Hash Tables. Object Oriented Python: Classes

and Object-Oriented Programming, Abstract Data Types and Classes, Inheritance,

Encapsulation and Information Hiding,

Unit 3

Regular Expressions – REs and Python, Plotting using PyLab

Unit 4

Introduction to Java: Overview and characteristics of Java, Java program compilation

and execution process, Organization of JVM, JVM as interpreter and emulator, sandbox

model. Data Types, primitive variables, arrays, operators, Control statements, standard

input-output and main method. Object Oriented concepts: Concept of encapsulation and

abstraction, Designing Classes, objects, instance variables and methods, Class modifiers,

Inheritance, Interfaces, Abstract classes, Polymorphism: overloading and overriding,

Composition.

Unit 5

Constructors: use of this and super, Java Stack and Heap, Garbage collection. Static

methods and variables, Wrapper classes, Autoboxing, Standard classes: Math and String

Unit 6

Exception Handling & applications: exception types, nested try-catch, throw, throws and

finally statements. Multithread Programming: thread creation, synchronization and

priorities. Input-output and file operations: Java.io, Object serialization and deserialization.

Java Collections API: Arraylist, Set, list, Map, Hashtable, Comparator and comparable

Database connectivity, Java Packages, creating a jar file

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

1. John V Guttag. “Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python”,

Prentice Hall of India

2. Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael H. Goldwasser, “Data Structures and

Algorithms in Pyhon”, Wiley

3. Kenneth A. Lambert, “Fundamentals of Python – First Programs”, CENGAGE

Publication

4. Luke Sneeringer, “Professional Python”, Wrox

5. Java Complete Reference Seventh Edition, Herbert Schildt.

SEMESTER- II

MBD 421 FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE

Unit 1

High Dimensional Space: Properties, Law of large number, Sphere and cube in high

dimension, Generation points on the surface of sphere, Gaussians in high dimension,

Random projection, Applications.

Unit 2

Random Graphs: Large graphs, G(n,p) model, Giant Component, Connectivity, Cycles,

Non-Uniform models, Applications.

Unit 3

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD): Best rank k approximation, Power method for

computing the SVD, PCA.

Unit 4

Random Walks and Markov Chains: Properties of random walks, Stationary distributions,

Random walks on undirected graphs with unit edge weights, Random walks in Euclidean

space, Markov Chain Monte Carlo.

Unit 5

Algorithm for Massive Data Problems, Frequency moments of data streams, Matrix

algorithms using sampling.

Unit 6

The General Models for Massive Data Problems: Topic Models - Non-Negative Matrix

Factorization, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), Hidden Markov Models, Graphical

Models and Belief Propagation, Bayesian Networks, Markov Random Fields.

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

1. Foundation of Data Science: Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan

MBD 422 ADVANCE STATISTICAL METHODS

Unit 1

Estimation: Unbiasedness, Consistency, UMVUE, Maximum likelihood estimates.

Unit 2

Test of Hypotheses: Two types of errors, test statistic, parametric tests for equality of

means & variances.

Unit 3

Gauss Markov Model, least square estimators, Analysis of variance.

Unit 4

Regression: Multiple linear regression, forward, backward & stepwise regression, Logistic

regression

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Mathematical Statistics I: P. J. Bickel and K.A. Docksum, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.

2. Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis : Douglas C. Montgomery

MBD 423 MACHINE LEARNING

Unit 1

Basics: Introduction to Machine Learning, Different Forms of Learning.

Unit 2

Regression Analysis: Linear Regression, Ridge Regression, Lasso, Bayesian Regression,

Regression with Basis Functions. Classification Methods: Instance-Based Classification,

Linear Discriminant Analysis, Logistic Regression, Large Margin Classification, Kernel

Methods, Support Vector Machines, Multi-class Classification, Classification and

Regression Trees.

Unit 3

Neural Networks: Multi-layer Networks, Back-propagation, Multi-class Discrimination,

Training Procedures, Localized Network Structure, Deep Learning.

Unit 4

Graphical Models: Hidden Markov Models, Bayesian Networks, Markov Random Fields,

Conditional Random Fields.

Unit 5

Ensemble Methods: Boosting - Adaboost, Gradient Boosting, Bagging - Simple Methods,

Random Forest.

Unit 6

Clustering: Partitional Clustering - K-Means, K-Medoids, Hierarchical Clustering -

Agglomerative, Divisive, Distance Measures, Spectral Clustering.

Unit 7

Dimensionality Reduction: Principal Component Analysis, Independent Component

Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, and Manifold Learning.

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

Recommended Textbooks:

1. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Christopher Bishop.

2. Machine Learning. Tom Mitchell.

Additional Textbooks:

1. Pattern Classification. R.O. Duda, P.E. Hart and D.G. Stork.

2. Data Mining: Tools and Techniques. Jiawei Han and Michelline Kamber.

3. Elements of Statistical Learning. Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman. Springer.

MBD 424 VALUE THINKING

Unit 1

This course involves watching few movies (list provided below) such as Twelve Angry

Men, Roshman, and reading few books (list provided below) that deals mostly with

argumentative logic, evidence, drawing inference from evidences. After watching each

movie and reading each book, there will be general discussion amongst the students. Each

student will prepare a term paper. Evaluation will be on the basis of this term paper and

participation in group discussion.

Movies:

1. Twelve Angry Men

2. Roshoman by Kurosawa

3. Trial of Nuremberg

4. Mahabharata by Peter Brook

Books:

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

2. Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

3. The Purloined Letter by Edger Allan Poe

4. The Case of the Substitute Face

MBD 425 COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

Unit 1

Linear Optimization Problem: Linear Programming, Simplex method, Revised Simplex

method, Duality, Dual Simplex, Interior Point Method, Transportation problem,

Assignment Problem

Unit 2

Non-linear Optimization Problem: General Non-Linear Unconstrained Optimization,

convex function, concave function, local & global optimum, quadratic programming

Unit 3

Discreet Optimization Problem: Local search, Greedy Algorithm, Dynamic Programming,

Branch & Bound Algorithm, Network Flow Problem: Shortest Path Problem, Knapsack

problem, Max-Flow and Min-cut problem

Unit 4

Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Computer vision, social networks, cyber physical

systems, Big Data analytics

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

1. Combinatorial Optimization -Theory and Algorithms, Bemhard Korte, Jens Vygen.

2. Combinatorial Optimization, W.J. Cook, W.H. Cunningham, W.R. Pulleyblank, A. Schrijver.

MBD 426 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMETRICS &

FINANCE

Unit 1

Basics of Finance: Time value of money, concept of present and future value analysis,

stock and bond valuations, risk and return, Systematic and unsystematic risk,

Diversification, cost of capital, capital structure, Dividend Discount Model, Portfolio

Theory, Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), Capital asset pricing model (CAPM), Market

Volatility, Options.

Unit 2

Introduction to Econometrics (using finance concepts): Assumptions of Classical Linear

Regression Model, Ordinary Least Squares approaches, Autocorrelation,

Heteroscedasticity, Multicollineariry, Dummy Variable approaches, Distributed lag

models

Unit 3

A brief Introduction to Time Series and Panel data models, Components of time series,

Stationary and non-stationary time series, ARMA and ARIMA models, Static panel data

models: fixed effects and random effects.

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, Franklin Allen, Pitabas Mohanty (2012).

Principle of Corporate Finance, (10th ed.), Tata McGraw Hill Education Private

Limited

2. Pamela Peterson Drake, Frank J. Fabozzi, (2010). The Basics of Finance: An

Introduction to Financial Markets, Business Finance and Portfolio Management, John

Wiley & Sons, Inc.

3. Chris Brooks (2014). Introductory econometrics for Finance, Cambridge University

Press.

4. Jeffery m Wooldridge (2015). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach,

Cengage learning

5. Damodar N. Gujarati. Basic Econometrics, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private

Limited

SEMESTER – III

MBD 511 MODELLING IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Unit 1

The course involves training the students to design, manage and improve a firm’s systems

and processes. The objective is to develop skills to combines data, technology, and

mathematical models to help managers make better decisions, identify new opportunities,

and become more competitive. The students will undertake a rigorous set of case studies

that equip them with the mindset necessary to be able to classify various operations

management problems, identify the nature of the information needed to be able to address

the problem, translate these problems into the appropriate statistical and/or mathematical

framework and interpret the results of the models in a verbal manner

Suggested Case studies:

• Venture analytics

• Banking analytics

• Marketing analytics

• Healthcare analytics

• Retail analytics

• Supply chain analytics

MBD 512 ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR DATA SCIENCE

Unit 1

Big Data and Hadoop: Hadoop architecture, Hadoop Versioning and configuration, Single

node & Multi-node Hadoop, Hadoop commands, Models in Hadoop, Hadoop daemon,

Task instance, illustrations.

Unit 2

Map-Reduce: Framework, Developing Map-Reduce program, Life cycle method,

Serialization, Running Map Reduce in local and pseudo-distributed mode, illustrations.

Unit 3

HIVE: Installation, data types and commands, illustration.

Unit 4

SQOOP: Installation, importing data, Exporting data, Running, illustrations

Unit 5

PIG: Installation, Schema, Commands, illustrations.

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Hadoop in Action: Chuck Lam, 2010, ISBN: 9781935182191

2. Data- intensive Text Processing with Map Reduce: Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer,

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010

MBD 513 DATA MINING

Unit 1

Data Mining: Introduction, Techniques, Issues and challenges, applications, Data

preprocessing, Knowledge representation

Unit 2

Association Rule Mining: Introduction, Methods to discover association rules, Association

rules with item constraints

Unit 3

Decision Trees: Introduction, Tree construction principle, Decision tree construction

algorithm, pruning techniques, Integration of pruning and construction; Cluster analysis:

Introduction, clustering paradigms, Similarity and distance, Density, Characteristics of

clustering algorithms, Center based clustering techniques, Hierarchical clustering, Density

based clustering, Other clustering techniques, Scalable clustering algorithms, Cluster

evaluation

Unit 4

Rough set theory, use of rough set theory for classification & feature selection.

Unit 5

ROC Curves: Introduction, ROC Space, Curves, Efficient generation of Curves, Area

under ROC Curve, Averaging ROC curves, Applications

Unit 6

Advanced techniques: Web mining - Introduction, Web content mining, Web structure

mining, Web usage mining; Text mining- Unstructured text, Episode rule discovery from

text, Text clustering; Temporal data mining – Temporal association rules, Sequence

mining, Episode discovery, time series analysis; Spatial data mining – Spatial mining tasks,

Spatial clustering, Spatial trends.

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Data Mining Techniques: A.K. Pujari, Universities Press, 2001

2. Mastering Data Mining: M. Berry and G. Linoff, John Wiley & Sons., 2000

MBD 514 TIME SERIES & FORECASTING

Unit 1

Basics of Time series: A model Building strategy, Time series and Stochastic process,

stationarity, Auto correlation, meaning and definition – causes of auto correlation -

consequence of autocorrelation – test for auto – correlation. Study of Time Series model

and their properties using correlogram, ACF and PACF. Yule walker equations

Unit 2

Time Series Models: White noise Process, Random walk, MA, AR, ARMA and ARIMA

models, Box- Jenkins’s Methodology fitting of AR(1), AR(2), MA(1), MA(2) and

ARIMA(1,1) process. Unit root hypothesis, Co-integration, Dicky Fuller test unit root test,

augmented Dickey – Fuller test.

Unit 3

Non-linear time series models, ARCH and GARCH Process, order identification,

estimation and diagnostic tests and forecasting. Study of ARCH (1) properties. GARCH

(Conception only) process for modelling volatility.

Unit 4

Multivariate Liner Time series: Introduction, Cross covariance and correlation matrices,

testing of zero cross correlation and model representation. Basic idea of Stationary vector

Autoregressive Time Series with order one: Model Structure, Granger Causality,

stationarity condition, Estimation, Model checking.

SUGGESTED BOOKS: Main References

1. Box, G. E. P. and Jenkins, G. M. (1976). Time Series Analysis – Forecasting and

Control, Holden – day, San Francisco.

2. Chatfield, C. (2003) Analysis of Time Series, An Introduction, CRC Press.

3. Ruey S. Tsay (2005). Analysis of Financial Time Series, Second Ed. Wiley & Sons.

4. Ruey S. Tsay (2014). Multivariate Time series Analysis: with R and Financial

Application, Wiley & Sons.

5. Introduction to Statistical Time Series : W.A. Fuller

Main Reading for Time Series and forecasting

1. Montgeomery, D. C. and Johnson, L. A. (1977). Forecasting and Time series Analysis,

McGraw Hill.

2. Kendall, M. G. and Ord, J. K. (1990). Time Series (Third edition), Edward Arnold.

3. Brockwell, P. J. and Davies, R. A. (2002) Introduction to Time Series and forecasting

(second Edition – Indian Print). Springer.

4. Chatfield, C. (1996). The Analysis of Time series: Theory and Practice. Fifth Ed.

Chapman and Hall.

5. Hamilton Time Series Analysis Jonathan, D. C. and Kung, S.C. (2008).Time Series

Analysis with R. Second Ed. Springer.

MBD 515 MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS

Unit 1

Review of Multivariate Normal Distribution (MVND) and related distributional results.

Random sampling from MVND, Unbiased and maximum likelihood estimators of

parameters of MVND, their sampling distributions, independence. Correlation matrix

and its MLE. Partial and multiple correlation coefficients, their maximum likelihood

estimators (MLE), Wishart distribution and its properties (only statement).

Unit 2

Hotelling's T2 and its applications. Hotelling's T2 statistic as a generalization of square of

Student's statistic. Distance between two populations, Mahalnobis D2 statistic and its

relation with Hotelling's T2 statistic.

Unit 3

Classification problem – two populations, two multivariate normal populations, several

populations; Discriminant analysis - Fischer’s method, Logistic Regression

Principle component analysis – Introduction, population principal components,

summarizing sample variation by principal components, graphing principal components

Unit 4

Canonical correlation – Introduction, canonical variates & correlations, interpreting

canonical variables,

Unit 5

Factor Analysis – Introduction, Orthogonal Factor model, Methods of Estimation, Factor

Rotation & Scores, and Perspective & Strategy for Factor Analysis

Unit 6

Cluster Analysis – Introduction, similarity measures, hierarchical & non-hierarchical

clustering methods, multidimensional scaling, correspondence analysis

SUGGESTED BOOKS: 1. Kshirsagar A. M.(1972) : Multivariate Analysis. Maral-Dekker. 2. Johnosn, R.A. and Wichern. D.W (2002): Applied multivariate Analysis. 5th

Ed.

Prentice –Hall. 3. Anderson T. W. (1984): An introduction to Multivariate statistical Analysis 2nd Ed.

John Wiely. 4. Morrison D.F. (1976): Multivariate Statistical Methods McGraw-Hill.

MBD 516 CLOUD COMPUTING

Unit 1

Overview of Computing Paradigm, Recent trends in Computing Grid Computing, Cluster

Computing, Distributed Computing, Utility Computing, Cloud Computing Evolution of

cloud computing Business driver for adopting cloud computing.

Unit 2

Introduction to Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing (NIST Model) Introduction to Cloud

Computing, History of Cloud Computing, Cloud service providers. Properties,

Characteristics & Disadvantages Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing.

Unit 3

Cloud Computing Architecture, Comparison with traditional computing architecture

(client/server), Services provided at various levels, How Cloud Computing Works, Role of

Networks in Cloud computing, protocols used, Role of Web services

Unit 4

Service Models (XaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service(PaaS),

Software as a Service(SaaS),Deployment Models ,Public cloud, Private cloud, Hybrid

cloud Community cloud, Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS). Introduction to virtualization,

Different approaches to virtualization, Hypervisors, Machine Image, Virtual Machine

(VM).

Unit 5

Examples, Amazon EC2, Renting, EC2 Compute Unit, Platform and Storage, pricing,

customers Eucalyptus, Platform as a Service (PaaS),Introduction to PaaS, What is PaaS,

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Examples: Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, SalesForce.com’s Force.com platform

Software as a Service (PaaS): Introduction to SaaS, Web services, Web 2.0, Web OS, Case

Study on SaaS

Cloud Security. Case Study on Open Source & Commercial Clouds

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

1. Cloud Computing Bible, Barrie Sosinsky, Wiley-India, 2010

MBD 517 BIOINFORMATICS

Unit 1

The objective is to train the students to learn to identify, compile, analyze, and

communicate complex biological and genetic data for initiatives in areas such as human

genome analysis, disease research, and drug discovery and development. The course

involves study of existing algorithms and application of data analytics to biological data.

• Sequence Alignment problem & Algorithm. Pairwise & Multiple sequence

Alignment.

• Advance Alignment Method.

• Gibbs Sampling

• Population Genomics.

• Genetic Mapping.

• Disease Mapping

• Gene Recognition

• Transcriptome & Evolution.

• Protein Structure.

• Protein Motifs.

• Hidden Markov Models

• Lattice Model.

• Algorithms.

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

1. Introduction Computational Molecular Biology : C Setubal & J Meidanis, PWS

Publishing Boston, 1997

MBD 518 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Unit 1

Software Development Life Cycle: Software Process, Software Development Life Cycle

Models , Software Requirement Engineering: Requirement Engineering Process

Unit 2

Function-oriented Design: Introduction to Structured Analysis, Data Flow Diagram, Process

Specification, Entity Relationship (ER) Model, Structured Design Methodologies, Design

Metrics

Unit 3

Object Oriented Concepts & Principles: Key Concepts, Relationships: Is-A Relationship, Has-

A Relationship, Uses-A Relationship; Modelling Techniques: Booch OO Design Model,

Rumbaugh’s Object Modelling Technique, Jacobson’s model, The Unified Approach to

Modelling, Unified Modelling Language (UML). Object Oriented Analysis & Design: Use-

Case Modelling, Use-Case Realization, Class Classification Approaches: Noun Phrase

Approach, CRC Card Approach, Use-case Driven Approach, Identification of Classes,

Relationship, Attributes and Method. System Context and Architectural Design, Principles of

Class Design, Types of Design Classes

Unit 4

UML 2.0 diagrams: Structure diagrams, Behavior diagrams

Unit 5

Software coding and Testing: Coding standards and guidelines, Code review techniques,

Testing Fundamentals, Verification & Validation, Black Box Testing, White Box Testing,

Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Object Oriented System Testing.

Unit 6

Emerging Trends: Architecture styles, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), CORBA,

COM/DCOM; Web Engineering: General Web Characteristics, Emergence of Web

Engineering, Web Engineering Process, Web Design Principles, Web Metrics

SUGGESTED TEXTBOOKS: 1. “Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach”, Roger S. Pressman, McGraw Hill,

6/e, 2005.

2. “Fundamentals of Software Engineering”, Rajib Mall, PHI, 3rd Edition, 2009.

3. “Unified Modeling Language Users Guide”, Grady Booch, James Rambaugh, Ivar

Jacobson, Addison- Wesley, 2nd Edition, ISBN – 0321267974

ADDITIONAL TEXTBOOKS: 1. “Software Engineering”, Ian Sommerville, Addison-Wesley, 9th Edition, 2010, ISBN-

13: 978-0137035151.

2. “System Analysis, Design, and Development: Concepts, Principles, and Practices”,

Charles S. Wasson,, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,ISBN-13 978-0-471-39333-7, 2006.

SEMESTER – IV

MBD 521 Internship based project

A real-life project must be undertaken at an undertaken at an industry for 20 weeks.

Each student will have two supervisors: Once from academic institution and one from the

industry. The project shall involve handling data extensively and use of methodologies

learnt during the course work to derive meaningful inferences. A final project report has to

be submitted and an “open” presentation has to be made.

Project evaluation may be as follows. Project evaluation of total 200 Marks

Internal Evaluation (by 3-member including internal supervisor) – 100 Marks

External Evaluation – 100 Marks