Statistical Concepts and Methods

Descriptive study of data; Elements of probability; Random variables and probability distributions; Distributions for counts; Basic concepts of testing hypotheses; The normal distribution and random samples; Inferences about a population; Comparing two treatments; Regression analysis: simple linear relation; Regression analysis: model checking and multiple linear regression; Correlation: a measure of linear relationship; Analysis of categorized data; Design of experiments and analysis of variance; Nonparametric inference; Sample surveys.