Nature and Scope
of Statistical methods and their limitations, compilation, classification,
tabulation and applications in pharma and life sciences; Graphical
representation; Measures of Average Stem and Leaf Plots; Box and Whisker Plots,
Co-plots; Introduction to Probability Theory and Distributions (Concepts
without Derivations), Binomial, Poisson & Normal Distributions (Only
definition and Problems)
Sampling Methods: Simple, Random,
stratified, Systematic and Cluster Sampling Procedures; Data Collection, Data
Organization and Data Representation; Bar, Pie, 2-D and 3-D Diagrams; Sampling
and Non-Sampling Errors; Sampling Distributions; measure of dispertion.
Interference
Concerning Means: Point Estimation - Interval estimation - Bayesians estimation
- Tests of Hypothesis; Common Parametric and Non parametric tests employed in
testing of significance in biological/pharmaceutical experiments.
Tests of
significance - T -test, chi-square test, analysis of variance, elements of
Anova (one way and two way). Principles of scientific experiments; concept of
CRD, RBD and Latin square diagrams.