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Mathematics Paper II Continued

16. Linear Integral Equations  :  Linear integral Equations of the first and second kind of Fredholm and Volterra type, solution by successive substitutions and successive approximations ; Solution of equations with separable kernels ;  The Fredholm Alternative ;  Holbert – Schmidt theory for symmetric kernels.

17. Numerical analysis  :  Finite differences, interpolation ; Numerical solution of algebric equation ; Iteration ;  Newton – Rephson method ; Solution on linear system ;  Direct method ;  Gauss elimination method ; Matrix – Inversion, elgenvalue problems ; Numerical differentiation and integration.
Numerical solution of ordinary differential equation; iteration method, Picard’s method, Euler’s method and improved Euler’s method.

18. Integral Transform  :  Laplace transform ; Transform of elementary functions, Transform of Derivatives, inverse Transform, Comrolution Theorem,  Applications, Ordinary and Partial differential equations ;  Fourier transforms ;  sine and cosine transform, Inverse Fourier Transform, Application to ordinary and partial differential equations.

19. Mathematical Programming  :  Revised simplex method, Dual simplex method, Sensitivity analysis and parametric linear programming.  Kuhn – Tucker conditions of optimality.  Quadratic programming ;  methods due to Beale, Wofle and Vandepanne, Duality in quadranic programming, self duality, integer programming.

20. Measure Theory  :  Measurable and measure spaces ; Extension of measures, signed measures, Jordan – Hahn decomposition theorems.  Integration, monotone convergence theorem, Fatou’s lemma, dominated convergence theorem.  Absolute continuity.  Radon Nikodym theorem, Product measures, Fubini’s theorem.

21. Probability  :  Sequences of events and random variables ;  Zero – one laws of Borel and Kolmogorov.  Almost sure convergence, convergence in mean square, Khintchine’s weak law of large numbers ; Kolmogorov’s inequality, strong law of large numbers.
Convergence of series of random variables, three – series criterion.  Central limit theorems of Liapounov and Lindeberg – Feller.  Conditional expectation, martingales.

22. Distribution Theory  :  Properties of distribution functions and characteristic functions ;  continuity theorem, inversion formula, Representation of distribution function as a mixture of discrete and continuous distribution functions ;  Convolutions, marginal and conditional distributions of bivariate discrete and continuous distributions.
Relations between characteristic functions and moments ;  Moment inequalities of Holder and Minkowski.

23. Statistical Inference and Decision Theory :  Statistical decision problem : non – randomized, mixed and randomized decision rules ; risk function, admissibility, Bayes’ rules, minimax rules, least favourable distributions, complete class, and minimal complete class.  Decision problem for finite parameter class.  Convex loss function.  Role of sufficiency.
Admissible, Bayes and minimax estimators ; Illustrations, Unbiasedness.  UMVU estimators.

Families of distributions with monotone likelihood property, exponential family of distributions.  Test of a simple hypothesis against a simple alternative from decision – theoretic view point.  Tests with Neymen structure.  Uniformly most powerful unbiased tests.  Locally most powerful tests.
Inference on location and scale parameters estimation and tests.  Equivariant  estimators invariance in hypothesis testing.