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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyText Based, Video Based

Course Overview

The Concentration inequalities online course is an 8 weeks program offered by Swayam, the government of India’s education ministry initiative. It is generally known that functions containing a large number of unpredictable integers act more predictably and less arbitrarily than their components.

Top-notch faculty from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore delivers the Concentration inequalities classes lectures. The course also provides candidates with a government-approved certificate via Swayam, Candidates must register and take the proctored in-person exam offered by the course provider at one of the approved testing centres which costs Rs 1000.

This graduate-level Concentration inequalities training on concentration inequalities addresses the fundamentals of the subject while also introducing advanced themes and approaches. Applications from computer science, electrical engineering, and statistics will be used to demonstrate the utility of the derived inequalities. 

The Concentration inequalities syllabus covers the following topics:

  • Chernoff bounds: Hoeffding’s inequality, Bennett’s inequality, Bernstein’s inequality
  • Introduction & motivation: Limit results and concentration bounds
  • Variance bounds: Efron-Stein inequality, Poincáre inequality
  • Isoperimetric inequalities
  • The transportation method
  • The entropy method and log Sobolev inequality
  • Other special topics

The Highlights

  • 3 credits
  • 100% free of cost
  • Video lectures
  • Postgraduate-level study
  • Government-approved certificate
  • 8 weeks duration
  • Offered by IIsc Bangalore
  • Course provider Swayam
  • Online learning

Programme Offerings

  • Reading Materials
  • Self-assessment
  • tests
  • quizzes
  • video lectures
  • Online discussion forums

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIISc Bangalore

Concentration inequalities Fees

Course

Amount in INR

Concentration inequalities

Free

Certification exam fee (optional)

Rs. 1,000


Eligibility Criteria

Certification Qualifying Details

To get the Swayam Concentration inequalities certification, students must complete the core curriculum and pass the examinations and quizzes.

What you will learn

After completing the Concentration inequalities online training, candidates will learn about Introduction & motivation: concentration bounds and limit results, Poincáre inequality, Efron-Stein inequality, Bennett’s inequality, Hoeffding’s inequality, Bernstein’s inequality, Isoperimetric inequalities, The transportation method and other special topics


Admission Details

To get admission to the Concentration inequalities classes by Swayam, follow the steps mentioned below:

Step 1. To access the official Swayam course website, click on the URL below.

(https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_ee106/preview)

Step 2. You may start the registration process by hitting the Register button.

Step 3. You may use your Facebook, Google, or Microsoft account to join up, or you can manually enter your email and password.

Step 4. To access the account details page, look for and click the 'Join' option.

Step 5. Fill in the required information to begin the course.

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