791-216 Statistical Methods II

Statistical Methods I.

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; and

• 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.

Assignments (20%); 2.5-hour examination (80%).