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

SYLLABUS

Allied - Practicals - Applied Statistics I and II

Max: 50 Marks
Record of practical: 10 Marks
Practical Exam: 40 Marks
Duration: 3Hrs.

NOTE:

Use of scientific calculator may be permitted for Mathematical Statistics for practical examination. Statistical and Mathematical tables are to be provided to the students at the examination hail.

1. Construction of Univariate distribution with sample size not exceeding 200. Diagrammatic & Statistical representation of data.

2. Numerical computation of measures of central tendency - Measures of Dispersion (relative and absolute) - Measures of Skewness.

3. Fitting of Binomial and Poisson distributions and testing of goodness of fit.

4. Computation of correlation coefficients - regression lines - rank correlations coefficients.

5. Curve fitting by the method of Least - Squares.
(i) y = ax + b ; (ii) y = ax² + bx + C ; (iii) y = ae^bx ; (iv) y = ax^b

6. Asymptotic and exact tests based on Normal, t and F distributions.

7. Chi-square test for independence of attributes and its applications to Biological studies.

8. Analysis of variance - One-way and Two-way classifications.

9. Analysis of CRD, RD and LSD.

10. Non-Parametric tests.