COURSE OUTLINE: This course is aimed at being a pre-term or a preparatory course for probability and statistics. It is very basic and introduces the students to the understanding of data and measuring associations. It also introduces the concepts of probability and distributions. ABOUT INSTRUCTOR: Prof. G Srinivasan teaches in the Department of Management Studies at IIT Madras. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. His areas of Interest include Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, O.R. Applications.