University of Madras - Syllabus of Bachelor of Science (BSc) Statistics - Allied - Paper II - Bio-Statistics II
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN STATISTICS
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)
SYLLABUS
Allied - Paper II - Bio-Statistics II
UNIT- 1:
Concepts of random variables and distributions - Standard distributions Binomial Poisson and Normal distributions and their applications.
UNIT - 2:
Concepts of sampling distributions - standard error - asymptotic and exact tests based on Normal, t, Chi-square and F distributions.
UNIT - 3:
Principles of Scientific experimentation - randomization, replication and local control
- Analysis of Variance - One way and Two way classifications CRD, RBD, LSD.
UNIT - 4:
Non-parametric tests: Run, Median, Sign, Mann-Whitney, and Wilcoxon-signed rank test.
UNIT - 5:
Introduction to Vital Statistics: Simple Mortality and Fertility rate - Birth rate and Life tables.
Books for Study and Reference:
Sunder Rao-Bio-Statistics.
Snedeer, G.W. and Cochran, W.G. - Statistical Methods, Oxford press, & IBH.
Zar, J. - Bio-statistical Analysis, Prentice Hall of India.
Lewis, A.E. (1971) - Bio-statistics.
Scholer, W.C. (1969) - Statistics for Biological Sciences, Addison Wesley.
Bancrof, H,: Introduction to Bio-statistics.
Sokal and Rohlf - Biometry, 2
nd ed., (1982).
Daniel, W. Bio-statistics, Wiley publishing company.