SEMESTER – V
DSE – 5A
APMB 356 BIOSTATISTICS AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (4 credits)
Unit - I
Biostatistics : definition – nature and scope of statistics and limitations – collection of data – sampling and sampling design – classification and
tabulation – frequency distribution for discrete and continuous data – diagrammatic representation (bar diagram and pie chart – graphical
representations (histogram, frequency polygon and ogives).
Unit - II
Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode, geometric mean, harmonic mean, measures of dispersion, range, mean deviation, quartile
deviation and standard deviation, standard error.
Unit - III
Introduction to computers: computer application, basics, organization, PC, mainframes and super-computers, concept of hardware and software,
concept of file, folders and directories, commonly used commands, flow charts and programming techniques.
Unit - IV
Introduction in MS Office software concerning word processing, spreadsheets for biostatistics and presentation software. New technologies in IT–
electronic commerce – hypermedia – data warehouses and marts – data mining online analytical processing – geographic information systems. Application of IT – computer in business and industry – computers in home – computers in education and training – computer in entertaining science, medicine and engineering.
Unit - V
Networking fundamentals, client, server, LAN, WAN, TelNET, INTERNET, NICNET, WWW, html, e mail, introduction to MEDLINE, CCOD and PUBMED, for accessing biological information.
Text Books
1. Balakrishnan N. (2003) Statistical Methods and Practice – Recent Advances, Narosa Publishing House Private Limited.
2. Preston Gralla (2000) How the Internet Work, Tech. Media.
Reference Books
1. Wardlaw A.C. (2000) Practical Statistics for experimental biologists, 2nd Edn. Wiley publishers
2. Gupta S.P. (2009) Statistical Methods, 28th Edn. Sultan Chand and Sons.
3. Gurumani N. (2005) An introduction to Biostatistics, MJP Publishers, Chennai.