Statistical Sciences

Complete ICAR AIEEA PG Statistical Sciences syllabus covering Agricultural Statistics, Computer Application and Bioinformatics.

ICAR AIEEA PG Statistical Sciences Syllabus

Sub-Subjects: Agricultural Statistics, Computer Application and Bioinformatics.

UNIT-I

Importance of agriculture, forestry and livestock; crop production; diseases and pests; economics and agricultural extension; rural development programmes; agricultural research, education and extension.

UNIT-II

Real and complex numbers; polynomials; de Moivre's theorem; set theory; vector spaces; matrices; determinants; linear equations; characteristic roots and vectors; sequences and series; coordinate geometry; differential and integral calculus; ordinary differential equations; finite differences; interpolation and numerical methods.

UNIT-III

Statistics: definition, use and limitations; frequency distributions; measures of central tendency and dispersion; probability; conditional probability and Bayes' theorem; binomial, multinomial, Poisson and normal distributions; sampling; standard error; hypothesis testing; large sample tests; t-test; F-test; chi-square; correlation and regression; experimental designs; ANOVA; CRD and RBD.

UNIT-IV

Computers: input and output devices; memory; hardware and software; operating systems; files and Windows; word processing; spreadsheets; Excel functions and data analysis; graphs; PowerPoint; Access; databases; programming languages including BASIC, FORTRAN and C; internet, WWW and e-mail; bioinformatics and NCBI GenBank databases.