Introduction to Stochastic Processes

By Prof. Manjesh hanawal | IIT Bombay

Learners enrolled: 370

Randomness is a common thing that we came across in our daily life. Questions like how much traffic will be on my route today? how much I need to wait to catch a bus to my workplace? will I gain or lose money in stock market? may not have fixed answers as they are associated with events that are not in our control and could be treated as random. In this course, we will learn various probability techniques to model random events and study how to analyze their effect.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : All disciplines learners

PRE-REQUISITE : Introductory real analysis

SUPPORT INDUSTRY : This is a basic course. All companies will recognize

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	24 Jan 2022
End Date :	15 Apr 2022
Enrollment Ends :	07 Feb 2022
Exam Date :	23 Apr 2022 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1 : Introductions to events, probability, conditional probability, Bayes rule

Week 2 : Random Varaibles, Expectations, Variance, Various type of distributions
Week 3 : CDF and PDF of random variables. Conditional CDF and PDFs
Week 4 : Jointly distributed random variables, covariance and independence
Week 5 : Transformation of random variables and their distributions
Week 6 : Introductions to Random processes. Stationary and Ergodicity
Week 7 : Convergence of Sequence of RVs. (almost surely, in probability, in distributions).
Week 8 : Strong and weak law of large numbers, central limit theorem
Week 9 : Discrete Markov chains. Stopping time and Strong Markov property Classification of Transient and Recurrent states
Week 10 : Counting Process, Poisson Processes and its applications
Week 11 : Renewal Theory. Elementary and Renewal Reward Theorem and
Week 12 : Introduction to Continuous Markov Chains

Books and references

1) Introduction to Probability Models by Sheldon Ross

2) Random Process for Engineers by Bruce Hajek

Instructor bio

Prof. Manjesh hanawal

IIT Bombay

Manjesh K. Hanawal received the M.S. degree in ECE from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, and the University of Avignon, Avignon, France, in 2013. After two years of postdoc at Boston University, he is now an Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. His research interests include performance evaluation, machine learning and network economics. He is a recipient of Inspire Faculty Award from DST and Early Career Research Award from SERB

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 23 April 2022 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
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CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

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