Syllabus
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Course Code: IN-BTY -705 Course Name: Biostatistics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Biostatistics: History of the field, objectives and connection with population genetics, levels of measurements, types of variables, precision vs accuracy Data Summarization and Visualization: Types of variables, frequency tabulations (EFD, ERFD, ECD), various types of charts, error bars, scatterplots, Concepts of moments, Skewness and kurtosis, Intuitive definition of random variables, probability mass function and probability density function, expectation and variance .Standard distribution; binomial, Poisson and normal distribution with their important properties and significance. |
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| 2 | Descriptive Statistics : measures of central tendency (mean, mode, median) and their dispersion, geometric mean - merits & demerits. Measures of dispersion - range, standard deviation, mean deviation, quartile deviation - merits and demerits; Co- efficient of variations. Correlation, Regression and Statistical inference: Fitting of main distributions and testing of goodness –of – the –fit with special reference to χ2- test, t –test, Z-test. Fitting of trends; linear and quadratic with least square method.Lines of regression, coefficient of correlation, coefficient of variation and their significance.Analysis of variance; one way and two way classification. Learn applications of statistics in the field of biology |
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