Syllabus For The Subject BIOSTATISTICS AND COMPUTER APPLICATION IN BIOLOGY

UNIT - 01

BIOSTATISTICS - DEFINITION - PRINCIPLES - SCOPE - LIMITATIONS AND USES -

COLLECTION OF DATA - SAMPLE - POPULATION - SAMPLING TECHNIQUES - TYPES OF

REPRESENTATION - GRAPHIC AND BAR DIAGRAMS

UNIT - 02

CENTRAL VALUES AND DISPERSIONS - MEAN - MODE - MEDIAN - COEFFICIENT OF

VARIATIONS PROBABILITY - STANDARD DEVIATIONS - CORRELATIONS - DISTRIBUTION -

BINOMIAL - POISSON AND NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

UNIT - 03

HYPOTHESIS TESTING - TEST OF SIGNIFICANCE - TEST IN LARGE SAMPLES AND SMALL

SAMPLES - T-TEST

UNIT - 04

F-TEST - CHI SQUARE TEST

UNIT - 05

COMPUTER - INTRODUCTION - APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY -

CHARACTERISTICS - HARDWARE & SOFTWARE - TYPES - GENERATION OF COMPUTERS

- INPUT/OUTPUT AND STORAGE DEVICES

UNIT - 06

FORTRAN PROGRAMMING - BASIS - REPRESENTATION OF INTEGER AND REAL

CONSTANTS - VARIABLES - EXPRESSION

UNIT - 07

FORTRAN PROGRAMMING - BASIS - ASSIGNMENT - INPUT/OUTPUT STATEMENTS -

DESIGN CONTROL STATEMENTS - LOOPS - SUBSCRIBED VARIABLE - FILES

UNIT - 08

DATA PROCESSING - INTRODUCTION - RECORDS - FILES - DATA COLLECTION -

PREPARATION - VERIFICATION - EDITING AND CHECKING

UNIT - 09

BACKUP AND FILE RECOVERY PROCEDURE - SORTING SEARCHING AND MERGING

UNIT - 10

MS OFFICE - DATA ENTRY - GRAPHS AND PROCESSING

UNIT - 11

FOXPRO - INTRODUCTION TO FOXPRO ENVIRONMENT - DATABASE CREATION AND

INSERTION - DELETION AND MODIFICATION

UNIT - 12

MANAGING MULTIPLE DATABASE - DISPLAY OF DATA - FOXPRO PROGRAMMING -

MEMORY VARIABLES - DATE - TIME - STRING AND MATH FUNCTIONS - REPORT

Vinayaka Missions University,Directorate of Distance Education

Salem India

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BOTANY

2 Yr.

BIOSTATISTICS AND COMPUTER APPLICATION IN

BIOLOGY(1030607)

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