Introduction to Agricultural Statistics

by Hemochandra, L

ISBN: 9789390384310
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Imprint : Biotech
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 4295.00
Biblio : viii+116p., figs., tabls., ind., 25 cm

Table of Contents

Preface v 1. Introduction to Statistics and Applications in Agriculture, Graphical Representation 1 Introduction, Scopes of statistics, Graphical representation, Drawing of Bar graph, and Pie chart using SPSS software 2. Measure of Central Tendency and Dispersion 21 Measure of central tendency and dispersion, Definition, Types, Characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency, Arithmetic Mean, Geometric Mean, Harmonic Mean, Median, Mode, Quartile, Measure of dispersion, Range, Standard Deviation, Co-efficient of variation 3. Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis 39 Raw moment, Central moment, Measure of skewness 4. Introduction to Probability 51 Probability, Definition, Classical Probability, Theorems on Probability 5. Theoretical Distribution 57 Theoretical distribution, Binomial, Poisson distribution, Normal distribution 6. Correlation and Regression Analysis 65 Correlation and Regression analysis, Co-efficient of correlation, Interpretation of co-efficient of correlation, Regression analysis, Difference between correlation and regression, Fitting of straight line 7. Introduction to Test of Significance 79 Testing of hypothesis, Test for population mean for small and large sample, Chi-square test, Test of goodness of fit 8. Analysis of Variance 87 Definition, Assumption, One way classified data, Two way classified data 9. Design of Experiment 93 Terminology used in experimental design, Completely randomized design, Randomized complete block design 10. Sampling Design 105 Introduction to sampling method, Sample survey over complete enumeration, Simple random sampling, Types of Random numbers, Method of selection, Stratified random sampling, Systematic sampling, Cluster sampling Index 115