GATE DA Probability and Statistics syllabus
Counting, probability, random variables, standard distributions and hypothesis testing.
About Probability and Statistics in GATE DA
The GATE DA 2027 syllabus lists 12 topics under Probability and Statistics.
It is one of the 7 subjects that together carry 85 of the 100 marks (Data Science & AI subjects). General Aptitude adds 15 marks and is common to every paper. The exam has 65 questions (MCQ, MSQ and NAT) in 3 hours.
See the full GATE DA syllabus for every subject and the marks distribution.
Same material in another paper
Probability and Statistics topics
- Counting: permutations and combinations
- Probability axioms, sample space, events, independent and mutually exclusive events
- Marginal, conditional and joint probability; Bayes' theorem
- Conditional expectation and variance
- Mean, median, mode and standard deviation; correlation and covariance
- Random variables; discrete random variables and probability mass functions
- Uniform, Bernoulli and binomial distributions
- Continuous random variables and probability distribution functions
- Uniform, exponential, Poisson, normal, standard normal, t- and chi-squared distributions
- Cumulative distribution function; conditional PDF
- Central limit theorem
- Confidence intervals; z-test, t-test and chi-squared test
Probability and Statistics PYQs & weightage
SoonGATE DA previous year questions (PYQs) on Probability and Statistics, with answers, solutions and topic-wise weightage, will appear here as they are published.