This Basic Biostatistics book was written to assist students and researchers of the biological sciences, with the primary purpose of helping them to learn about and apply appropriate experimental designs and statistical methods. The book chapters cover all basic topics at UG and PG levels at India and foreign organisations. Statistical methods applied to biological sciences are known as Biostatistics or Biometrics, and they have their origins in agricultural and biomedical research.

The special feathers that distinguish biometrics within statistics is the fact that biological measurements are variable, not only because of measurement error, but also from their natural variability from genetic and environmental sources. These sources of variability must be considered when drawing conclusions about biological material. Accounting for these sources of variation has led to the development of experimental designs that incorporate blocking, covariates and repeated measures. Appropriate techniques for analysis of data from these designs and others are sincerely discussed in the book.

This Basic Biostatics book has lot of important attractive features are simplicity, easy to understand, compiled and arranged with in simple English language. All the statistical theory has been illustrated with examples for better understanding of all statistical principles. A number of solved numerical problems has been discussed in this book.

Content

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Classification and tabulation of data

Chapter 3. Measure of central tendency

Chapter 4. Calculation of Mean, Median and Mode from group data

Chapter 5. Measure of Dispersion

Chapter 6. Moments, skewness and kurtosis

Chapter 7. Correlation and regression

Chapter 8. Probability

Chapter 9. Probability distribution

Chapter 10. Testing hypothesis

Chapter 11. Statistical tests

Chapter 12. F test

Chapter 13. Design of experiments

Chapter 14. Sampling and livestock census

Chapter 15. Bioassays

Chapter 16. Least Square Method and Linear Models

Chapter 17. Understanding BLUEs, BLUPs

Chapter 18. Question bank

Chapter 19. Appendix (Statistical tables)