BICONE LE ISLaCeS 4, P.V. SreenivasaiahISSO LB IELGs De Py Seeenivasaah, horn 26" Fe 1955, curently working a Pofessny and Head, Department of xian raduated from Veeerinary College. UAS, Bangalore, curing 1975. He obtained his Master's degree (at NI firng 1977) sad Phd fom APAU, Hyderabad diang 1945) wih Irak as oth wit ICAR Pellowship Speciiengin Poult Science De BX, Srenivasniahs known tahavea special apse ossards Mathomatics in general. and Statistics, in prteular Fe es helped many Master's and Docorate studeets in varios ed of Veterinary Science vise and interpret Net wesench data thas been tong. chersed team comme true oe i ase aunhoredatookon eternary Bist This book is nique being « Hisatstics book writen by Veterinarian with examples exchsive rom diferent hes of Veterinary ant Avimal Sciences and Is expected "0 verve a a realy reference fr UC ‘dens aswell a5 all esearch pesunel i Rilagial Sciences im yeneral and those in the Mele of| ‘iterinary an Anne! Seence ia pare DrVStenisesaiah s abo the asahor ofthe popula textbook Sele Paley Meincin whe I revised ndenianged ion as pulsed bysning.2008, ‘unter deta abou the aha and his publications ean be ob aldo endean beeontaciedac pot pus@gal sn a INTERVATIONAL BOOK DISTRIBUTING CO from hs website warcgnal etme, 9867 Price: Rs. 3957‘Contents CHAPTER Pages PREFACE ii 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2 CENTRAL TENDENCY 5 (Arithmetic) Mean (AM), Median and Mode, Geometric mean (GM) and Harmonic mean (FIM); Averages (Moving and Progressive); Positional measures (Quartiles, Deciles and Percentiles); Selection of a suitable measure of central tendency 3. DISPERSION 2 Variance and Standard Deviation; Coefficient of Variation and Standard Error; Other measures of dispersion - Mean deviation, Lorenz curve etc.; Characterizing a distribution (Skewness and Kurtosis) 4. PROBABILITY 33 Permutation and Combination; Concept of Probability - Addition and Multiplication; laws Conditional probability; Mathematical expectation; Applications (Screening tests and Predictive value); Risk analysis DISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS s Binomial distribution; Poisson distribution; Other distribv tions ~ + Negative binomial, Multinomial and hypergeometric 6. CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS a Normal distribution; Importance of Normal distribution; Central Limit Theorem; Fitting normal distribution; Testing normality of distribution; Student's #, x! and F distributions 7. TESTS OF HYPOTHESES a (For one and two samples) Setting-up hypotheses; Setting-up level of significance; One - tail and Two - tail tests; Power of a text; Sample size; Estimation (Point and Interval estimates); Tests of significance: One - sample tests for mean, variance, binomial and Poisson proportions, Two - sample tests: Paired samples -t test, Wilcoxon paired rank test, McNemar's, test, Garts test; Independent samples - equality of means and variances, Mantel - Haenszel test, Mantel - extension test, test for binomial proportions, Fisher's exact test, McNemar’s test; Others = 17 goodness of fit, The Kappa statistic, Kemolgorov - Smirnov goodness of fit, Three - dimensional contingency tables)