791-216 Statistical Methods II

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Statistical Methods I.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

The objective of the subject is to enable students to:

• apply statistical concepts and procedures, to make valid inferences about populations with the information contained in sample data;

• evaluate the results of experiments carried out in the field or controlled conditions or results reported in books and scientific journals;

• undertake a satisfactory and precise experiment or project which may be part of their major study or industry interaction program.

The content includes: Concepts and Procedures in Agricultural Experimentations - Basic concepts and principles, researcher's problems, steps in experimentation, procedures. Population and samples - Specification of population, sampling techniques, methods, use and limitations. Inference about a population - Comparisons of treatment means, confidence interval, hypothesis testing, significance level, t, 2, and F-Tests - their concepts, procedure and applications. Experimental Designs - Models and applications, analysis of variance, mean separation, transformation of data, mean separation - methods and procedures. Correlation and Regression - Rank and product-moment correlations, regression analysis - procedures and applications. Non-parametric statistics - Concepts and procedures.

Assessment

Assignments (20%); two and a half hour examination (80%).