Practical
Operating system – windows – MS Excel – statistical functions – measures of central tendency – mean, median, mode, geometric mean, harmonic mean – quartiles and percentiles – measures of dispersion – range, quartile deviation, mean deviation, standard deviation, variance and coefficient of variation – skewness and kurtosis – finding critical values of t, F and c2.
Statistical data analysis using MS Excel – descriptive statistics – independent and paired t–tests – F test for testing the equality of variances – large sample test for comparing two means – correlation coefficient – simple linear regression analysis – multiple linear regression analysis.
For Social Science students
One way ANOVA – two way ANOVA – cross tabulation – goodness of fit – contingency table – Kolmogrov Smirnov test – Mann Whitney U–test – Wilcoxon matched pairs signed rank test – Kruskal Wallis one–way analysis – Friedman two–way analysis – Spearman rank correlation – Kendall’s rank correlation – Kendall’s coefficient of concordance.
Time series analysis – moving average – exponential smoothing.
For Plant Science Students
Design of experiments – using AGRES / IRRISTAT – Completely Randomised Design (CRD) – Randomised Block Design (RBD) – factorial experiments – symmetrical and asymmetrical series – split plot design – split– split plot design – data transformation – log transformation – square root transformation – angular transformation.
Analysis using Software---- Statistical Analysis