'Statistical Methods' is a course offered in B. Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture at School of Agricultural Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Introduction to statistics and its applications in agriculture. Graphical representation of data, measures of central tendency & dispersion, definition of probability, addition and multiplication theorem (without proof). Simple problems based on probability. Binomial & poisson distributions, definition of correlation, scatter diagram. karl pearson’s coefficient of correlation. Linear regression equations. Introduction to test of significance, one sample & two sample test t for means. Chi-Square test of independence of attributes in 2 ×2 contingency table. Introduction to analysis of variance and analysis of one way classification.