Biostatistics and Research Methodology

The combination of Biostatistics and Research Methodology is very much useful for bio-sciences.This book covers the course on “Biostatistics and Research Methodology” for students of Pharmacy, Biology, Biotechnology, Medicine, Home science students as a part of their degree and P.G. degree programs.This book contains 13 chapters. They include Basic concepts, Probability and Probability distributions, Tests of Hypotheses, Chi-square test, Analysis of Variance, Experimental Designs, Non-Parametric statistics and Research Methodology.All chapters are written in a lucid manner so that students can understand easily without much mathematical background. Live examples are added for illustration purpose for all the statistical methods. In some cases more than one example is added for wide applicability of the statistical tools.SPSS data analysis procedure is included for most of the popular statistical methods by giving an example in each case. Research Methodology chapter is useful to the P.G students for undertaking research for their dissertation work.This book is also intended to serve as a text book for Pharmacy students at U.G. and P.G. level. Salient Features of this book.Written in a lucid manner so that non –mathematical students can understand easily.SPSS data analysis procedure is presented for most of the popular statistical tools with simple examples.Immense help to faculty who are guiding M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in their project work. Contents: 1. Introduction2. Collection of Data3.  Data Organization 4. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion5. Skewness and Kurtosis 6. Probability and Distributions7. Correlation and Regression 8.Tests of Hypotheses9. Chi-square Test10.Analysis of Variance11.Experimental Designs12.Non-parametric Statistics13. Research Methodology About the Author: G. Nageswara Rao has retired as Associate Dean, Professor & University Head, Department of Statistics & Mathematics, College of Agriculture, Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad. He has more than 50 years of experience in teaching to Agriculture, Veterinary and Home Science students and has published 48 research papers in National and International Journals.He was awarded “State Best Teacher award” by Government of Andhra Pradesh in 2000. He was visiting Professor to Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. in 1998 and visited Australia, Philippines and Thailand on Study assignment in 2000 as Associate Dean.He guided 300 M.Sc. and 200 Ph.D. students in the faculties of Agriculture, Veterinary and Home Science in Statistical analysis for their thesis work as minor advisor.He is author of text books “Statistics for Agricultural Sciences”, Bio-Statistics & Computer Applications” and “Research Methodology & Quantitative methods” published by B.S. Publications, Hyderabad, Telangana.He also served as ‘consultant Statistician’ for 7 years for the world Bank aided project “Community Based Tank Management Project (CBTMP)“ implemented in States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from 2009-2016.Presently He has been serving as Professor of Statistics (on contract) in College of Home Science, Saifabad, Hyderabad, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad since last six years.