What you will learn in this course

 In this course, you have the course units and a course guide. The course guide will tell you briefly what the course is all about. It is a general overview of the course materials you will be using and how to use those materials. It also helps you to allocate the appropriate time to each unit so that you can successfully complete the course within the stipulated time limit. The course guide also helps you to know how to go about your TutorMarked-Assignment which will form part of your overall assessment at the end of the course. Also, there will be tutorial classes that are related to this course, where you can interact with other students. Please I encourage you to attend these tutorial classes. This course exposes you data collection, management and analysis, the knowledge will be helpful during your project data collection and analysis,it is indeed very interesting field of Biology.

Course Objectives

To achieve the aim set above, there are objectives. Each unit has a set of objectives presented at the beginning of the unit. These objectives will give you what to concentrate and focus on while studying the unit and during your study to check your progress. The Comprehensive Objectives of the Course are given below. At the end of the course/after going through this course, you should be able to:  Discuss the use of statistics in area of biology, agriculture and medicine , Discuss the different sampling methods and understand the purpose and importance of sampling , Mention type of frequency distribution.  Organise data using frequency distribution.  Explain the normal, poisson and binomial distributions ,Compute the probability in poisson and binomial probability distributions  State the null and alternative statistical hypothesis  Determine the level of confidence in a biological data , Explain the relationship between type I and II errors , Explain the purpose of goodness of fit test , Compute correlation and regression , Explain types of correlation and Regression , Explain the principle of experimental design , Define Anova and test statistical hypothesis using Anova  ,Compute the spear rank correlation coefficient , Give the difference between non-parametric and parametric test , Describe the applications of SPSS and MINITAB in different statistical procedures , Mention example of statistical tools in the statistical packages.