UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN STATISTICS
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Allied - Paper I - Bio-Statistics I

UNIT- 1:

Nature and scope of statistical methods and their limitations-compilation, classification and tabulation of statistical data- uses of frequency table - O gives and frequency curves.

UNIT - 2:

Measures of location - Arithmetic mean, median, mode, Geometric mean, Harmonic mean and their properties - merits and demerits.

UNIT - 3:

Measures of dispersion - Range, mean deviation, quartile deviation, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, skewness and kurtosis - and their properties.

UNIT - 4:

Events and sets - sample space - concept of probability - addition and multiplication theorem on probability - conditional probability and independence of events.

UNIT - 5:

Bivariate frequency table and its uses - Covariance and coefficient of correlation - scatter diagram - regression lines - lineaf prediction - curve fitting by the method of least squares.

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