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Statistics
Data summaries and descriptive statistics, central tendency, variance, covariance, correlation,
Basic probability: basic idea, expectation, probability calculus, Bayes theorem, conditional probability,
Probability distribution functions — uniform, normal, binomial, chi-square, student’s t-distribution, Central limit theorem,
Sampling, measurement, error, random number generation,
Hypothesis testing, A/B testing, confidence intervals, p-values,
ANOVA, t-test
Linear and logistic regression, regularization
Decision trees
Robust and non-parametric statistics
Linear Algebra
Basic properties of matrix and vectors — scalar multiplication, linear transformation, transpose, conjugate, rank, determinant,
Inner and outer products, matrix multiplication rule and various algorithms, matrix inverse,
Special matrices — square matrix, identity matrix, triangular matrix, idea about sparse and dense matrix, unit vectors, symmetric matrix, Hermitian, skew-Hermitian and unitary matrices,
Matrix factorization concept/LU decomposition, Gaussian/Gauss-Jordan elimination, solving Ax=b linear system of equation,
Vector space, basis, span, orthogonality, orthonormality, linear least square,
Eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalization, singular value decomposition (SVD)
Calculus
Functions of single variable, limit, continuity and differentiability,
Mean value theorems, indeterminate forms and L’Hospital rule,
Maxima and minima,
Product and chain rule,
Taylor’s series, infinite series summation/integration concepts
Fundamental and mean value-theorems of integral calculus, evaluation of definite and improper integrals,
Beta and Gamma functions,
Functions of multiple variables, limit, continuity, partial derivatives,
Basics of ordinary and partial differential equations (not too advanced)
Discrete Math
Sets, subsets, power sets
Counting functions, combinatorics, countability
Basic Proof Techniques — induction, proof by contradiction
Basics of inductive, deductive, and propositional logic
Basic data structures- stacks, queues, graphs, arrays, hash tables, trees
Graph properties — connected components, degree, maximum flow/minimum cut concepts, graph coloring
Recurrence relations and equations
Growth of functions and O(n) notation concept
Optimization, Operations Research
Basics of optimization —how to formulate the problem
Maxima, minima, convex function, global solution
Linear programming, simplex algorithm
Integer programming
Constraint programming, knapsack problem
Randomized optimization techniques — hill climbing, simulated annealing, Genetic algorithms
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