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IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Syllabus 2027, Exam Pattern

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Detail Information about IIT JAM has published notification 2027 for the notification of Mathematical Statistics vacancies. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following vacancy and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Entrance with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.

IIT JAM Syllabus 2027

Exam Name Indian Institute of Technology Joint Admission Test for Masters
Conducting Body IIT Bombay
Exam Level Postgraduate Exam at National level
Exam Frequency Once a year
Mode of Exam Computer-Based Test (CBT)
Courses Offered Through Entrance Exam MSc and Integrated PhD
Number of Exam Centers 100
Helpdesk Number - (0361) 2586500 
Official Website jam2027@iitb.ac.in
 
IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Syllabus 2027
Mathematics  :
 
Mathematics (Sections 1-3)
 
Section 1; Sequences and Series of real numbers
Sequences of real numbers, their 
convergence, and limits. Cauchy sequences and their convergence. Monotonic sequences and their limits. Limits of standard sequences. Limit superior and limit inferior of sequences. Infinite series and its convergence, and divergence. Convergence of series with non-negative terms. Tests for convergence and divergence of a series. Comparison test, limit comparison test, D’Alembert’s ratio test, Cauchy’s n th root test, Cauchy’s condensation test, and integral test. Absolute convergence of series. Leibnitz’s test for the convergence of alternating series. Conditional convergence. Convergence of power series and radius of convergence.
 
Section 2; Differential Calculus of one and two real variables, and Integral Calculus
 
Differential Calculus of one variable: Limits of functions of one real variable. Continuity and differentiability of functions of one real variable. Properties of continuous and differentiable functions of one real variable. Rolle’s theorem and Lagrange’s mean value theorems. Higher order derivatives, Lebnitz’s rule and its applications. Taylor’s theorem with Lagrange’s and Cauchy’s form of remainders. Taylor’s and Maclaurin’s series of standard functions. Indeterminate forms and L’ Hospital’s rule. Maxima and minima of functions of one real variable, critical points, local maxima and minima, global maxima and minima, and point of inflection.
 
Differential calculus of two variables: Limits of functions of two real variables. Continuity and differentiability of functions of two real variables. Properties of continuous and differentiable functions of two real variables. Partial differentiation and total differentiation. Lebnitz’s rule for successive differentiation. Maxima and minima of functions of two real variables. Critical points, Hessian matrix, and saddle points. Constrained optimization echniques (with Lagrange multiplier).
 
Integral Calculus: Fundamental theorems of integral calculus (single integral). Lebnitz’s rule and its applications. Differentiation under integral sign. Improper integrals. Beta and Gamma integrals: properties and relationship between them. Double integrals. Change of order of integration. Transformation of variables. Applications of definite integrals. Arc lengths, areas and volumes.
 
Section 3; Matrices and Determinants: Rn and Cn as vector spaces over real field
 
Span of a set. Linear dependence and independence. Dimension and basis. Null space. Algebra of matrices. Standard matrices (Symmetric and Skew Symmetric matrices, Hermitian and Skew Hermitian matrices, Orthogonal and Unitary matrices, Idempotent and Nilpotent matrices). Definition, properties and applications of determinants. Evaluation of determinants using transformations. Determinant of product of matrices. Singular and non-singular matrices, and their properties. Trace of a matrix. Adjoint and inverse of a matrix, and related properties. Rank and nullity of a matrix, row-rank, column-rank, standard theorems on ranks, rank of the sum and the product of two matrices. Row reduction and echelon forms. Consistent and inconsistent systems of linear equations. Properties of solutions of system of linear equations. Use of determinants in solving the system of linear equations. Cramer’s rule. Characteristic roots and Characteristic vectors. Properties of characteristic roots and vectors. Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Quadratic forms, positive definite, positive semi-definite, negative definite,and negative semi-definite matrices, and their simple properties.
 
Statistics (Sections 4 - 12)
 
Section 4; Descriptive Statistics and Probability:
 
Descriptive Statistics: Concepts of sample and population. Different types of data. Tabular and graphical representation of data. Measures of central tendency (arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, median, mode). Measures of dispersion (range, inter quartile range, mean deviation about a point, standard deviation, variance, coefficient f variation). Moments, central moments, skewness and kurtosis. Bivariate data: Scatter diagram, covariance, simple, partial and multiple correlations (3 variables only), Spearman’s rank correlation.
 
Probability: Random Experiments. Sample Space and Algebra of Events (Event space).
Relative frequency and Axiomatic definitions of probability. Properties of probability function. Addition theorem of probability function (inclusion-exclusion principle). Geometric
probability. Boole’s and Bonferroni’s inequalities. Conditional probability and Multiplication rule. Theorem of total probability and Bayes’ theorem. Pairwise and mutual independence of events.

Section 5; Univariate Distributions: Definition of random variables. Cumulative distribution function (c.d.f.) of a random variable. Discrete and Continuous random variables.
 
Probability mass function (p.m.f.) and Probability density function (p.d.f.) of a random variable. Distribution (c.d.f., p.m.f., p.d.f.) of a function of a random variable using transformation of variable and Jacobian method. Mathematical expectation and moments. Mean, Median, Mode, Variance, Standard deviation, Coefficient of variation, Quantiles, Quartiles, and measures of Skewness and Kurtosis of a probability distribution. Moment generating function (m.g.f.), its properties and uniqueness. Markov and Chebyshev inequalities, and their applications.
 
Degenerate, Bernoulli, Binomial, Negative binomial, Geometric, Poisson, Hypergeometric, Uniform, Exponential, Double exponential, Gamma, Beta (of first and second type), Normal and Cauchy distributions, their properties, interrelations, and limiting (approximation)
cases.
Section 6; Multivariate Distributions: Definition of random vectors. Joint and marginal
 
c.d.f.s of a random vector. Discrete and continuous type random vectors. Joint and marginal p.m.f., joint and marginal p.d.f.. Conditional c.d.f., conditional p.m.f. and conditional p.d.f. Independence of random variables. Distribution of functions of random vectors using transformation of variables and Jacobian method. Mathematical expectation of functions of random vectors. Joint moments, Covariance and Correlation. Joint moment generating function and its properties. Uniqueness of joint m.g.f. and its applications. Conditional moments, conditional expectations and conditional variance. Additive properties of Binoimial, Poisson, Negative Binomial, Gamma and Normal Distributions using their m.g.f. Multinomial distribution as a generalization of binomial distribution and its properties (moments, correlation, marginal distributions, additive property). Bivariate normal distribution, its marginal and conditional distributions and related properties.
 
Section 7; Limit Theorems: Convergence in probability, convergence in mean square, almost sure convergence, convergence in distribution, and their inter-relations. Weak law of large numbers, Strong law of large numbers, and Central Limit Theorem (i.i.d. and finite variance case).
 
Section 8; Sampling Distributions: Definitions of random sample, parameter and statistic. Sampling distribution of a statistic. Order Statistics: Definition and distribution of the rth order statistic (d.f. and p.d.f. for i.i.d. case for continuous distributions). Distribution (c.d.f., p.m.f., p.d.f.) of smallest and largest order statistics (i.i.d. case for discrete as well as continuous distributions). Central Chi-square distribution: Definition and derivation of p.d.f. of central x 2 distribution with n degrees of freedom (d.f.) using m.g.f. Properties of central x 2 distribution, additive property and limiting form of central x 2 distribution. Central t - distribution: Definition and derivation of p.d.f. of Central t-distribution with n d.f., Properties and limiting form of central t-distribution. Central F-distribution: Definition and derivation of p.d.f. of Central F- distribution with (m,n) d.f. Properties of Central F-distribution, distribution of the reciprocal of F-distribution. Relationship between t, F and 2 distributions.
 
Section 9; Estimation: Unbiasedness. Sufficiency of a statistic. Factorization theorem. Complete statistic. Consistency and relative efficiency of estimators. Uniformly Minimum variance unbiased estimator (UMVUE). Rao-Blackwell and Lehmann-Scheffe theorems and their applications. Cramer-Rao inequality and UMVUEs. Methods of Estimation: Method of moments, method of maximum likelihood, invariance of maximum likelihood estimators. Least squares estimation and its applications in simple linear regression models.
Confidence intervals and confidence coefficient. Confidence intervals for the parameters of univariate normal, two independent normal, and exponential distributions.

Section 10; Testing of Hypotheses: Null and alternative hypotheses (simple and composite), Type-I and Type-II errors. Critical region. Level of significance, size and power of a test, p-value. Most powerful critical regions and most powerful (MP) tests. Uniformly most powerful (UMP) tests. Neyman-Pearson Lemma (without proof) and its applications to construction of MP and UMP tests for parameter of one-parameter parametric families.
 
Likelihood ratio tests for parameters of univariate normal distribution.
 
Section 11; Nonparametric Methods: Tests of randomness based on total number of runs. Empirical distribution function. Kolmogorov-Smirnov one sample test. One and two sample sign tests. Mann-Whitney test.
 
Section 12; Stochastic Processes: Discrete time Markov chain: transition probability matrix, higher order transition probabilities, Markov chain as a graph, Chapman-Kolmogorov equation, classification of states and chains, stability of Markov chain (stationary and limiting distributions). Poisson process and its properties, interarrival and waiting times.
 
IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Exam Pattern 2027
 
Section A :
 
Number of Questions – 30 questions having 10 questions of 1 mark each and 20 questions of two marks each. Each question will have four choices out of which only one choice will be a correct one.
Nature of Questions – Objective type (MCQs)
Exam Mode – Online (CBT)
Exam Medium – The question papers at all exam centers will be in English only. 
Marking Scheme – 1 or 2 mark questions
Negative Marking – For each wrong answer of 1 mark questions, 1/3 mark will be deducted and similarly for each wrong answer of 2 marks questions, 2/3 mark will be deducted.
 
Section B :
 
Number of Questions – 10 questions only.  
Nature of Questions – Multiple Select Questions (MCQs). Each MSQ type question is similar to MCQ but with a difference that there may be one or more than one choice(s) that are correct out of the four given choices.
Exam Mode – Online (CBT)
Exam Medium – The question papers at all exam centers will be in English only. 
Marking Scheme – The candidate gets full credit only if he/she selects all the correct answers only and no wrong answers. 
Negative Marking – There are no negative and no partial marking provisions.
 
Section C : 
 
Number of Questions – 20 questions involving 10 questions of one mark each and 10 questions of two marks each. 
Nature of Questions – Numerical Answer Type (NAT). For NAT type questions, the answer is a signed real number, which needs to be entered using the virtual numeric keypad on the monitor.
Exam Mode – Online (CBT)
Exam Medium – The question papers at all exam centers will be in English only. 
Marking Scheme – For correct answers candidates will get 2 marks. 
Negative Marking – There are no negative and no partial marking provisions.
 
Duration : 180 Minutes
 
Section No.of Question Marks Total Marks Negative Marking
Section A 10 MCQs 1 mark each 10 0.33
  20 MCQs 2 mark each 40 0.66
Section B 10 MSQs 2 marks each 20 Not Applicable
Section C 10 NAT Questions 1 mark each 10 Not Applicable
  10 NAT Questions 2 marks each 20 Not Applicable
Total 60   100  

IIT JAM Mathematical Statistics Exam Date 2027 : February 2027 (Tentative)
Starting Date of Application Form : September 2026 (Tentative)
Last Date of Application Form : October 2026 (Tentative)

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