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Certificate Course
in Biostatistics
Eligibility, No. of seats, sistribution of Credits to theory, practical, Passing and grading criteria
are according to the guidelines given by UGC in XIth plan
Infrastructure required:
Well-equipped lecture rooms
Library with relevant books
Computer lab
Internet Connectivity
Laptop
LCD Projector
Licensed SPSS Software
Staff requirement:
A co-ordinator who will be responsible for the smooth conduct of the course. Co-
ordinator of the course may be paid an Honorarium of Rs. 5000/- per year out of the seed
money.
A lectures and practicals can be conducted by the core faculty or visiting faculty having
expertise in concerned field. Guest faculty/Internal faculty may be remunerated @ Rs.
250/ per lecture of 1 hour duration.
Faculty must possess atleast a Bachelor’s Degree with a expertise in Respective filed.
Faculties from industry and research institutes.
Paper I 10 Credits
Paper I (Theory) 6 Credits
Unit I
Introduction
o Some definitions
o The development of biostatistics
o The statistical frame of mind
Data in Biostatistics
o Samples and populations
o Variables in biostatistics
o Accuracy and precision of data
o Derived variables
o Frequency distributions
o The handling of data
Descriptive Statistics
o The arithmetic mean
o Other means
o The median
o The mode
o The range
o The standard deviation
o Sample statistics and parameters
o Practical methods for computing mean and standard deviation
o The coefficient of variation
Unit II
Introduction to Probability Distributions: The Binomial and Poisson Distributions
o Probability, random sampling, and hypothesis testing
o The binomial distribution
o The Poisson distribution
The Normal Probability Distribution
o Frequency distributions of continuous variables
o Derivation of the normal distribution
o Properties of the normal distribution
o Applications of the normal distribution
o Departures from normality: Graphic methods
Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
o Distribution and variance of means
o Distribution and variance of other statistics
o Introduction to confidence limits
o Student's t distribution
o Confidence limits based on sample statistic
o The chi-square distribution
o Confidence limits fur variances
o Introduction to hypothesis testing
o Tests of simple hypotheses employing the t distribution
o Testing the hypothesis
Practical’s will be based on the theory using Excel, SPSS & R Software
Paper II 10 Credits
Paper II (Theory) 6 Credits
Unit I
Introduction to Analysis of Variance
o The variances of samples and their means
o The F distribution
o The hypothesis
o Heterogeneity among sample means
o Partitioning the total sum of squares and degrees of freedom
o model I anova
o model II anova
Single-Classification Analysis of Variance
o Computational formulas
o Equal n
o Unequal n
o Two groups
o Comparison among means: Planned comparisons
o Comparison among means: Unplanned comparisons
Two-Way Analysis of Variance
o Two-way anova with replication
o Two-way anova: Significance testing
o Two-way anova without replication
Assumptions of Analysis Of Variance
o The assumptions of anova
o Transformations
o Nonparametric methods in lieu of anova
Unit II
REGRESSION
o Introduction to regression
o Models in regression
o The linear regression equation
o More than one value of Y for each value of X
o Tests of significance in regression
o The uses of regression
o Residuals and transformations in regression
o A nonparametric test for regression
CORRELATION
o Correlation and regression
o The product-moment correlation coefficient
o Significance tests in correlation
o Applications of correlation
o Kendall's coefficient of rank correlation
ANALYSIS OF FREQUENCIES
o Test for goodness of fit: Introduction
o Single-classification goodness of fit tests.
o Tests of independence: Two-way tables